# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Penn Line Tree Service Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024087783` · 8/23/2024 · SCOTTDALE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Penn Line Tree Service Inc
- **Location:** 300 Scottdale Avenue, SCOTTDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15683
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A cherry tree was being felled. It had been roped off and attached to a rope puller (come-along). A dead limb broke off the tree and struck the rope, which caused the rope puller to strike the employee operating it in the mouth. The employee suffered a broken jaw and a laceration to the neck.

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