Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221600943

EDWARD LEON TERRELL III

Event
Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Cutting, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Tree, Tree Care, Tree Climber, Tree Climbing System, Tree Limb
NAICS
561730
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#346986409
Employer profile
EDWARD LEON TERRELL III
Summary number
221600943
Report ID
0355114

Event description

Employee climbing tree is killed in fall

Investigation abstract

At 12:44 p.m. on August 29, 2023, an employee was climbing a tree in preparation for cutting a tree limb when he fell to the ground and was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 39 M

    Event type
    5

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