Fractures

Name: Fractures at Nelson Logging, LLC
Start: 12/23/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181213150 · 12/23/2018 · Nelson Logging, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple trunk locations
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

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

Employer

Name: Nelson Logging, LLC
Location: private property employer was contracted to conduct, SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN, 53588
NAICS: 113310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a chainsaw to cut the top off a tree he had felled. A limb from another tree (weighing about 30 pounds) fell about 30-40 feet and hit him on the back. He suffered four broken ribs and three smaller broken bones near the spine.

Source

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