# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Experts, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025032713` · 3/21/2025 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Experts, LLC
- **Location:** 2102 Bear Creek Ln, ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76006
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 21, 2025, at approximately 9:45 a.m., an employee was climbing down a tree that was approximately 10 feet tall. His feet were caught by vines, causing him to lose his balance and fall down into a 4-foot-deep storm drainage ditch below the tree. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right humerus and a fractured rib.

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