# Fractures at Lucas Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2025076430` · 7/3/2025 · CHERRYFIELD, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Lucas Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** West River Rd, CHERRYFIELD, MAINE, 04622
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending after trimming up in a tree when the limb that his climb line was attached to failed after he descended 7 feet. The employee fell approximately 30 feet to the ground. The employee sustained three fractured vertebrae and a fractured sternum.

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