# Fractures at Brown's Tree Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088348` · 8/21/2025 · BRADENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against stationary object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Brown's Tree Service, LLC
- **Location:** NW corner of Lorraine and Greenbrook Blvd. Common Area, BRADENTON, FLORIDA, 34211
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to hold a rope that was tied around a pine tree where dead branches were being removed. As a branch was removed, the tree swung, causing the employee holding onto the rope to swing, slide across the grass, and strike the bumper of a nearby truck. The employee sustained a lower leg fracture.

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