# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022064778` · 6/3/2022 · BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC
- **Location:** 24 Rustic Terrace, BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO, 80424
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was ascending a spruce tree and positioned his lanyard around two branches. The branches broke and the employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, landing on his side. The employee sustained a fractured wrist and a fractured vertebra.

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