# Fractures at Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017109757` · 10/11/2017 · LAKE PANASOFFKEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Tree Service, LLC.
- **Location:** County Road 494 and County Road 470, LAKE PANASOFFKEE, FLORIDA, 33538
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A tree limb was cut and dropped to the ground. When it hit the ground, it shattered. Tree limb debris struck a nearby employee, who suffered a broken fibula and tibia and was hospitalized.

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