# Fractures at North Suburban Tree Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017087752` · 8/14/2017 · GIBSONIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Skidders-cable and grapple
## Employer
- **Name:** North Suburban Tree Service, Inc
- **Location:** PA Turnpike Eastbound, GIBSONIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15044
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a grapple log skidder to move cut trees when it rolled over the side of a hill and partially landed on the side of the turnpike below. He suffered multiple skull fractures and a fractured T3 vertebra.

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