# Fractures at NELSON TREE SERVICE
> OSHA SIR `2024065382` · 6/18/2024 · MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Saws  except chainsaws
## Employer
- **Name:** NELSON TREE SERVICE
- **Location:** 615 Camp Street, MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 15132
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a tree to trim a branch. The employee was tied in with a climbing line at a branch union on the tree. As they were using a hand saw to trim the branch, the saw severed the climbing line and the employee fell from the tree to the asphalt pavement below. The employee was hospitalized for neck/back fractures and a skull fracture.

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