# Fractures at STANLEY TREE SERVICE, INC
> OSHA SIR `2017099113` · 9/22/2017 · NORTH EASTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** STANLEY TREE SERVICE, INC
- **Location:** 7 Elderberry Road, NORTH EASTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02356
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were using a bucket truck to remove two trees that had fallen on utility wires. The employee was cutting a tree limb when a piece of the tree fell and struck the employee, knocking him to the ground. He broke his hip and was hospitalized.

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