# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert Co
> OSHA SIR `2017087407` · 8/3/2017 · EAST PALESTINE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face 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:** Asplundh Tree Expert Co
- **Location:** 6500 OH-170, EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, 44413
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had cut a 4-foot maple sapling at the base. When he went to push it over, the sapling hit a broken limb on a dead tree. The limb struck the employee in the face causing facial fractures and a broken nose.

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