# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Menominee Tribal Enterprises
> OSHA SIR `2020076778` · 7/18/2020 · NEOPIT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Menominee Tribal Enterprises
- **Location:** N3580 Hwy 47, NEOPIT, WISCONSIN, 54150
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to saw down a small pine tree near a larger rotting pine tree when the small tree fell against the larger tree and jolted it. An upper section of the larger pine became dislodged and fell several minutes later. The employee was struck and pinned to the ground by a protruding branch of the trunk section that fell. He suffered crushed vertebrae, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*