# Fractures at Federal Correctional Institution McKean
> OSHA SIR `20181212674` · 12/10/2018 · LEWIS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Federal Correctional Institution McKean
- **Location:** 6975 Route 59, LEWIS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA, 16738
- **NAICS:** 922140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was part of a work crew that was conducting logging operations. The employee was cutting down a tree. When he had completed the cut and the tree started falling, a branch broke off and fell onto the employee causing a fractured vertebrae. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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