# Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at Townsend Tree Service Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019077395` · 7/19/2019 · CALVIN, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Tree Service Company, LLC
- **Location:** Landfill Road, CALVIN, WEST VIRGINIA, 26660
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming a tree and unknowingly cut his primary climbing rope. When he completed his cutting work, he unfastened his secondary (safety) rope to begin his decent down the tree and immediately fell to the ground.

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