# Fractures at West Tree Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171111182` · 11/22/2017 · BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** West Tree Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 6367 Barber Rd, BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72927
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Groundsmen were felling a 28-foot cherry tree with a 22-inch diameter base when the tree rotated on its base, spinning and falling in the opposite direction of what they anticipated. An employee was running along the pre-planned escape route when the tree struck his right shoulder and head, knocking him to the ground where he briefly lost consciousness. The employee suffered a skull fracture. He was wearing a hard hat at the time.

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