# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at United States Department of Agriculture
> OSHA SIR `2024099141` · 9/30/2024 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Department of Agriculture
- **Location:** Forest Service Rd (630 off Millcreek), DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 926140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was providing support for hurricane relief. He was sawing a tree when one of the tree limbs fell down and struck him. The employee sustained a severe laceration on the forehead and an open fracture of his frontal sinus/skull. The employee was hospitalized.

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