# Fractures at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2020021695` · 2/20/2020 · BURR RIDGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** Private Residence, BURR RIDGE, ILLINOIS, 60527
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working aloft in a locust tree with his tie-in point high in the middle of the tree. He had worked his way out on a branch to make the needed cuts and was walking back in toward the main trunk when he slipped and swung back into the trunk. He struck his foot, causing a break in both bones of his lower leg.

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