# Fractures at Yellowstone Landscape
> OSHA SIR `2025076496` · 7/7/2025 · SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Yellowstone Landscape
- **Location:** 259 Fernbank Road, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01129
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A three-person crew was trimming trees at an apartment building. The injured employee was cutting an attached limb at ground level. The limb fell and struck the employee on the back, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.

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