Fractures

Name: Fractures at NORTHERN TREE SERVICE
Start: 7/20/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017076778 · 7/20/2017 · NORTHERN TREE SERVICE

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Nonclassifiable
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Log loaders
Secondary source: Limbs, branches-unattached

Employer

Name: NORTHERN TREE SERVICE
Location: Road Shoulder, MONTGOMERY, MASSACHUSETTS, 01085
NAICS: 561730
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was sitting in the operator seat of a log loader truck preparing to assist in a tree felling operation when a tree limb broke and fell on him, knocking him to the ground. He fractured four vertebrae, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown