# Fractures at LEWIS TREE SERVICE, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018043722` · 4/18/2018 · DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** LEWIS TREE SERVICE, INC.
- **Location:** 307 River Road, DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01342
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just topped a white pine tree and was using his climbing line to descend the tree when he lost his footing and fell approximately 40 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken wrist.

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