# Cuts, lacerations at Davey Tree Service
> OSHA SIR `20161110885` · 11/19/2016 · WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Davey Tree Service
- **Location:** 31 Guyencourt Road, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 19807
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an aerial lift and cutting a tree limb. The tree limb fell towards him and pinched his arm between the end of the limb and the aerial lift bucket. His right upper arm was lacerated and required surgery.

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