# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2024098144` · 9/3/2024 · WELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 980 Zigler Road, WELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17365
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up limbs and brush debris when they were struck by a tree limb that was trimmed overhead. The employee sustained neck and back fractures and a head laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

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