# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2023087053` · 8/3/2023 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 220 Renaissance Parkway, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30308
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 3, 2023, an employee was working aloft in a tree to conduct tree trimming. The branch he was tied off to broke causing him to fall to the ground. He sustained multiple fractures to vertebrae and ribs.

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