Incident date: 2025-07-19
NAICS industry code: 115310

An employee was using a chainsaw to cut brush during wildfire suppression operations and line preparation. The chainsaw bar became stuck in brush while he was cutting limbs off a juniper tree. He reached to move the brush and his left-hand fingers contacted the moving chain. The employee's index and middle fingers were partially amputated, and he sustained severe tissue damage to his ring finger that was reattached.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Chainsaws
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high