# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2023010910` · 1/30/2023 · MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 1 Alexandria Road, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY, 07960
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pruning a maple tree. He was at about 20 to 30 feet, advancing up the tree, when the limb his climbing line was tied into failed. He fell to the ground and suffered a lower back fracture.

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