# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2023075883` · 7/3/2023 · WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 5th Ave. Bridge, WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, 16365
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in an aerial device on a bridge, removing tree limbs. A tree limb broke and jostled the bucket, causing the employee to fall from the bucket into a body of water below the bridge. They sustained a compression fracture of the T12 vertebra and contusions to the chest and neck.

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