# Fractures at Tree Care of New York, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023098737` · 9/21/2023 · PERRYSBURG, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Tree Care of New York, LLC
- **Location:** 10439 Mosher Rd., PERRYSBURG, NEW YORK, 14129
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming trees below an electric line and was using a rope to pull the trees down. The employee was on a tag line pulling an electric line over when they pulled slack out of the rope. The rope caught a limb on an adjacent dead tree, causing it to strike the employee on the hard hat and right shoulder. The employee suffered a shoulder fracture requiring surgery and hospitalization.

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