# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Lewis Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065643` · 6/13/2025 · RED LION, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in road work zone
- **Source:** Automobile
- **Secondary source:** Avoiding stationary object in path of travel
## Employer
- **Name:** Lewis Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 960 Burkholder Road, RED LION, PENNSYLVANIA, 17356
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was flagging traffic on a public road near a tree trimming operation. A car stopped next to him as he stood on the shoulder. A second car, approaching at high speed and about to strike the first car, veered onto the shoulder and struck the employee instead. He suffered a broken tooth, a laceration on his tongue, a laceration and bruise on his head, several broken bones, and a hematoma on his left thigh. He was hospitalized.

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