# Fractures at Wright's Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021908` · 2/27/2020 · ATHENS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wright's Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 18147 US Highway 175 East, ATHENS, TEXAS, 75751
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were using a rope puller to load a broken chipper onto a flatbed trailer. When the rope puller was tensioned, the hook broke; the rope and broken hook rebounded, striking an employee. The employee suffered a broken right arm and internal bleeding.

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