# Fractures at Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20171010144` · 10/23/2017 · DOVER PLAINS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Chippers
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
- **Location:** 10 Honey Ln., DOVER PLAINS, NEW YORK, 12522
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out the feed-wheel of a wood chipper when the trailer jack holding the feed-wheel in place slipped out. The feed-wheel then struck the employee's left forearm, fracturing and lacerating it.

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