# Fractures at Wiese Tree Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023076541` · 7/21/2023 · MOBILE, ALABAMA
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wiese Tree Service, LLC
- **Location:** Charlie McDonough Residential Home, MOBILE, ALABAMA, 36693
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting the top of a dead tree and rigged the rope to repel down when they fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below. The employee sustained fractures to both legs, the sternum, vertebrae of the back, and ribs.

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