# Fractures at Central Alabama Electric Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2025021523` · 2/16/2025 · JEMISON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Alabama Electric Cooperative
- **Location:** 3055 County Road 5, JEMISON, ALABAMA, 35085
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a tree on a downed power line. A section of the tree that was suspended by the power line projected upward after being cut, striking the employee in the back. The employee sustained fractures to a left rib and their T3, T9, and T10 vertebrae.

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