# Fractures at SAWNEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `20161211759` · 12/19/2016 · WOODSTOCK, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Rope, twine, string
- **Secondary source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** SAWNEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
- **Location:** 115 COX ACRES DR, WOODSTOCK, GEORGIA, 30188
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 19, 2016, at approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee was working from an elevated bucket truck to top a tree when the tree top broke away, causing the attached guy-rope to pin the employee against the bucket under the weight of the tree top. He suffered broken ribs and broken vertebrae.

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