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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 85500.015 - Employee Is Struck By Falling Tree Branch And Is Killed

**Accident: 85500.015 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 03/10/2016**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1131617.015	03/10/2016		Environmental Quality Resources, Llc

At approximately 3:15 p.m. on March 10, 2016, an employee and coworkers were in the process of taking a 90-ft "Poplar" Tree down with an excavator. While the t ree was being taken down, all workers were standing behind the excavator. The t ree was to come down to the right of the excavator. The employee crossed the br idge and was standing to the left of the excavator when the tree started to come down towards him and one of the upper branches struck him in the back of the he ad. The employee sustained a fractured skull and was killed.

Keywords: excavator, falling object, struck by, tree, tree felling

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1131617.015	25	M	Fatality		Forestry workers, except logging

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