# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Lewis Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032634` · 3/24/2022 · FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Rope, twine, string
- **Secondary source:** Chippers
## Employer
- **Name:** Lewis Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 16206 Constitution Ln, FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS, 77546
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding brush into a wood chipper. A climbing rope was tangled in the brush. It was drawn into the wood chipper and struck the worker, causing him to be thrown into the curbside guard panel of the machine. He suffered abrasions across the upper back, a broken left humerus (at the elbow), broken ribs, a diaphragmatic hernia, and a bruised and lacerated kidney. He was hospitalized.

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