Incident date: 2020-04-27
NAICS industry code: 113310

An employee was cutting up a felled tree with a chainsaw. The chainsaw got stuck and the employee turned it off. Another employee stepped between the tree and another tree, pushing down the tree with the chainsaw stuck in it. The tree freed itself from the stump and hit the employee's left knee, fracturing and dislocating it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate