# Fractures at Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020087551` · 8/10/2020 · BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation
- **Location:** 884 CR 720, BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72616
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were felling a de-limbed, live tree. They attached a rope to the tree to help control the direction of fall and ensure nothing fell toward the road. As the tree was falling, it went off course and the two employees went separate ways. One of the employees went into the path of the falling tree, which hit the left side of his back and hip area. He broke his left femur, lumbar spine, left hip, and left leg.

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