# Fractures at KESLAR LUMBER COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2016043438` · 4/25/2016 · DUNBAR, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** KESLAR LUMBER COMPANY
- **Location:** 225 Kingan Hill Road, DUNBAR, PENNSYLVANIA, 15431
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting down trees for the sawmill.  When he cut down a larger tree, it fell onto a smaller tree that then bowed over. The employee went to cut the smaller tree and it sprung back, hitting his left leg and breaking it below the knee. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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