# Fractures at Slater Diederich Tree Care LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017043220` · 4/10/2017 · MADISON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Slater Diederich Tree Care LLC
- **Location:** 6610 Old Sauk Rd, MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53705
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up a worksite when a storm-damaged limb became dislodged from the tree canopy and fell on the employee. The employee was hospitalized for two broken ribs and five fractured vertebrae.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*