Fractures

Name: Fractures at Federal Correctional Institution McKean
Start: 12/10/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181212674 · 12/10/2018 · Federal Correctional Institution McKean

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Nonclassifiable
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Limbs, branches-unattached
Secondary source: Trees

Employer

Name: Federal Correctional Institution McKean
Location: 6975 Route 59, LEWIS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA, 16738
NAICS: 922140
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was part of a work crew that was conducting logging operations. The employee was cutting down a tree. When he had completed the cut and the tree started falling, a branch broke off and fell onto the employee causing a fractured vertebrae. He was hospitalized for surgery.

Source

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