# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2021043495` · 4/28/2021 · SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 188 Water Street, SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA, 25276
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delimbing a cut-down tree. One of the limbs kicked back and struck the employee between the ankle and the knee, breaking the employee's tibia.

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