# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191010634` · 10/10/2019 · SISTERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Sacral region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert Company LLC
- **Location:** Diamond Street, SISTERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, 26175
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a tree. At 15 feet up, he fell from the tree to the ground, breaking the sacrum bone near his tailbone.

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