# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021108863` · 10/14/2021 · PENFIELD, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, Inc.
- **Location:** 149 Timber Brook Lane, PENFIELD, NEW YORK, 14526
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming branches and removing a cut limb. When the employee rotated the limb to send it to the ground, the limb made contact with the overhead 12 kV line and the employee was shocked.

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