# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098456` · 9/13/2023 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 514 Fox Ridge Rd, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63131
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew was tasked with sectionally removing a pin oak tree. An employee was working aloft using an adjacent tree as a rigging point. The employee cut a section of the tree and the rigging point limb on the adjacent tree broke and struck them. They sustained two fractures to the right arm and two broken fingers.

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