# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2025010490` · 1/15/2025 · PALMYRA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Chippers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** W790 Zinnia Ave, PALMYRA, WISCONSIN, 53156
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up wood debris and chipping it using a chipper. As he was feeding the chipper from the back, a limb (about 4 inches thick and 5 to 6 feet long) kicked up and struck his face, causing him to lose a tooth and breaking his jaw in two places. He was hospitalized.

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