# Fractures at Beaver Excavating Company
> OSHA SIR `20191213307` · 12/31/2019 · CHESTER, 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
## Employer
- **Name:** Beaver Excavating Company
- **Location:** 61 Little Blue Grass Drive, CHESTER, WEST VIRGINIA, 26034
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting down a tree as part of a land clearing operation. He was walking away from the tree after his cut when the branches struck him, breaking his elbow, ribs, and knee.

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