Struck by object or equipment, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Davey Tree Expert Company, 514 Fox Ridge Rd, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63131
on — Fractures, affecting the hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
A crew was tasked with sectionally removing a pin oak tree. An employee was working aloft using an adjacent tree as a rigging point. The employee cut a section of the tree and the rigging point limb on the adjacent tree broke and struck them. They sustained two fractures to the right arm and two broken fingers.
HospitalizedHand(s) and arm(s), unspecifiedLimbs, branches-unattached
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