Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-01-31 | Keshena | Wisconsin | Jeff Dixon Logging LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On January 31, 2018, an employee was felling an oak tree that became hung up on a rotten tree, which caused the rotten tree to snap, fall, and hit the employee. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for facial fractures, a forehead laceration, broken bones, a lacerated liver and a brachial plexus injury. |