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Accident: 201610771 - Employee Injured When Struck By Tree Top

**Accident: 201610771 -- Report ID: 1054113 -- Event Date: 10/23/1998**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
302049333	10/29/1998	2411	Walty Contract Cutting Inc

At approximately 10:00 a.m. on October 23, 1998, Employee #1, working for Walty Contract Cutting, Inc., was injured when he fell a Douglas fir tree which had a small Cedar top hung up in the tree. The fir tree fell, pulling the Cedar top. The cedar top hit another tree and spun around striking Employee #1 in the head. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured skull.

Keywords: fracture, tree felling, skull, tree, logger, struck by, flying object, logging

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	302049333			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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