Fractures

Name: Fractures at North Suburban Tree Service, Inc
Start: 8/14/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017087752 · 8/14/2017 · North Suburban Tree Service, Inc

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Head and trunk
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
Source: Skidders-cable and grapple

Employer

Name: North Suburban Tree Service, Inc
Location: PA Turnpike Eastbound, GIBSONIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15044
NAICS: 238910
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a grapple log skidder to move cut trees when it rolled over the side of a hill and partially landed on the side of the turnpike below. He suffered multiple skull fractures and a fractured T3 vertebra.

Source

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