# Fractures at Nelson Logging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181213150` · 12/23/2018 · SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Logging, LLC
- **Location:** private property employer was contracted to conduct, SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN, 53588
- **NAICS:** 113310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a chainsaw to cut the top off a tree he had felled. A limb from another tree (weighing about 30 pounds) fell about 30-40 feet and hit him on the back. He suffered four broken ribs and three smaller broken bones near the spine.

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