# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Treesmiths, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010133` · 1/6/2025 · CONNEAUTVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, cherry picker
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** Treesmiths, LLC
- **Location:** 20599 S. Center Road, CONNEAUTVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16406
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an aerial lift removing tree limbs, approximately 60 feet from ground level. The front end of the lift truck's chassis began to slide sideways on ice and snow. The movement caused the outrigger to slide off the outrigger pad, which in turn caused the truck to tip over onto its side. The top of the aerial lift basket struck the employee's mouth, and the employee suffered broken front teeth, closed facial fractures, and a fracture of their lateral right orbital wall.

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