# Fractures at Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20191011078` · 10/23/2019 · BELVA, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees, logs, limbs, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
- **Location:** 4335 Vaugh Road, BELVA, WEST VIRGINIA, 26656
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was topping a 100-foot-tall tree. The employee was attached to the tree using a climbing line and a safety line, about 60 feet high, when the tree split below the cutting point. The employee was knocked off the tree and struck by the split section of the tree, suffering a broken right leg, abdominal contusions, and a chipped lower-back vertebra.

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