# Fractures at Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241110806` · 11/20/2024 · FAIRPORT, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Tires, inner tubes
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, Inc.
- **Location:** 28 Little Spring Run, FAIRPORT, NEW YORK, 14450
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting down a tree when they were struck by the front tire of an articulating wheeled grapple that was falling. They were hospitalized with a broken lower right leg.

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