# Fractures at Peoples Gas
> OSHA SIR `2016109780` · 10/17/2016 · FENELTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Peoples Gas
- **Location:** 264 Branan Road, FENELTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 16034
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a gas leak when a dead tree fell and struck a nearby excavator. A piece of the tree then struck the employee in the head. The employee suffered fractures to the neck vertebrae, back vertebrae, and ribs.

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