# Fractures at Associated Arborists
> OSHA SIR `2025065467` · 6/9/2025 · HAYDEN, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Associated Arborists
- **Location:** P.O. Box 2971, HAYDEN, IDAHO, 83835
- **NAICS:** 113310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down a tree after setting a rope to allow the tree to be removed. A knot at the end of his climbing system failed and he fell from the tree, landing about 35 feet below. He suffered fractures to the pelvis and spinal cord and was hospitalized.

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