# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Townsend Tree Service
> OSHA SIR `20181111375` · 11/5/2018 · COTTAGEVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Tree Service
- **Location:** Rt 87, COTTAGEVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, 25239
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to chunk a box elder tree when a dead limb, about 3 inches thick and 5 feet long, struck him in the face. He suffered forehead, nose, and eye area injuries.

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