# Fractures at Nelson Tree Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201110495` · 11/5/2020 · BRIDGEPORT, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Tree Service, LLC
- **Location:** 68660 Mutton Hollow Road, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO, 43912
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing two 6-inch diameter elm trees to create space to fell a larger ash tree. The employee felled the first tree and it fell into the second elm tree. When he cut down the second elm tree, it broke off the stump due to the pressure from the first tree and struck the employee's left leg. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured fibula.

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