# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Townsend Tree Service Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018054820` · 5/17/2018 · SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Tree Service Company LLC
- **Location:** 1401 Windyville Road, SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA, 25276
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending out of a tree after completing his cuts when the 4-inch limb that he was tied off to began to bow and then broke below the tie-off point. He fell approximately 40 feet to the ground, injuring his ankles and back.

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