# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201110520` · 11/6/2020 · NEW CASTLE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
- **Location:** 1777 CR 241, NEW CASTLE, COLORADO, 81647
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioning himself on a tree branch to make a cut. The branch broke and the employee fell, suffering a broken leg.

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