Brown's Tree Service, LLC
2025-08-21 · BRADENTON, FLORIDA
Final narrative
An employee was helping to hold a rope that was tied around a pine tree where dead branches were being removed. As a branch was removed, the tree swung, causing the employee holding onto the rope to swing, slide across the grass, and strike the bumper of a nearby truck. The employee sustained a lower leg fracture.
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