# Cuts, lacerations at TOWNSEND TREE SERVICES Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020087425` · 8/6/2020 · ROME, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping, unspecified
- **Source:** Ground, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TOWNSEND TREE SERVICES Company, LLC
- **Location:** John Davenport Drive & Center Street, ROME, GEORGIA, 30165
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing brush into a disc chipper while trimming trees. The employee tripped and fell backward into the brush and was pulled into the disc chipper. The employee was hospitalized for severe lacerations and cuts to the left shoulder.

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