# Fractures at Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025032693` · 3/21/2025 · POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc
- **Location:** Browns Lake Road, POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS, 72455
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 21, 2025, an employee was clearing trees and brush from a utility right-of-way. The employee was bucking (cutting) a fallen tree that was approximately 40-inches off the ground when the tree fell onto their left leg. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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