# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021042949` · 4/8/2021 · FRANKLIN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
- **Location:** 8151 Franklin Walton Road, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, 13775
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was felling a large tree. As the tree fell, it contacted another large tree, causing that tree to become uprooted and fall. That tree then contacted a dead tree, causing a large section of the dead tree to break off. Pieces of the dead tree section struck the employee in the back, resulting in three fractured ribs.

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