# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019054410` · 5/1/2019 · CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert LLC
- **Location:** 386 Omega Ln, CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, 26301
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been topping a dead tree while tied into an adjacent buckeye tree. When the employee had finished topping and was descending the tree, the top of the buckeye tree broke and the employee fell about 33 feet to the ground sustaining multiple fractured ribs.

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