# Fractures at Shawn Yarger
> OSHA SIR `2017054834` · 5/30/2017 · HOPEWELL, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Shawn Yarger
- **Location:** 17 Tecumseh Court, HOPEWELL, ILLINOIS, 61565
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming a tree from an elevated bucket at an approximate height of 50 feet when a portion of the tree that was cut fell and struck the bucket. This caused the bucket to fall to a lower position approximately 8 feet below the original work position. The employee was flipped out the bucket and fell 42 more feet to the ground, breaking bones and requiring hospitalization.

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