# Fractures at Wright Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015096367` · 9/2/2015 · ROMNEY, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Lifelines, lanyards, safety belts, harnesses
## Employer
- **Name:** Wright Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** Route 51 and Ridge Road, ROMNEY, WEST VIRGINIA, 26757
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 2, 2015, at 4:00 p.m., an employee had finished trimming some branches while suspended in a tree in a climbing saddle. He was descending when the knot that secured his lifeline to his safety harness clip came loose. He fell approximately 14 feet to the ground and suffered a compression fracture to his L-4 vertebrae in his spine, requiring hospitalization.

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