# Fractures at Eversource Energy
> OSHA SIR `20201211415` · 12/5/2020 · WORTHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Eversource Energy
- **Location:** 428 West Street, WORTHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 01098
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an aerial bucket clearing branches. A 70-pound branch hung up in the tree after being cut, then fell and struck the employee in the back and neck. The employee suffered a broken scapula and three broken vertebrae.

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