# Fractures at TOM'S TREE SERVICE LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020032152` · 3/5/2020 · DARDENNE PRAIRIE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** TOM'S TREE SERVICE LLC
- **Location:** 6957 Weldon Springs Rd, DARDENNE PRAIRIE, MISSOURI, 63368
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a bucket truck's bucket. The upper boom caught between branches; while the booms were being moved, a branch broke, causing the upper boom to spring side to side. The employee fell out of the bucket and was caught by his full-body harness after falling 2 feet. He suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

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