# Cuts, lacerations at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `20201211407` · 12/4/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Saws-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 11145 N. Country Squire, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77024
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working aloft pruning a live oak tree when his pole saw began to fall. The employee reached for the pole saw handle but the pole slipped through his hand and the blade cut his left hand.

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