# Cuts, lacerations at Verrier Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017076926` · 7/25/2017 · EAST GREENWICH, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Trip without fall, unspecified
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Verrier Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 2550 New London Turnpike, EAST GREENWICH, RHODE ISLAND, 02818
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee started a chain saw and was walking toward a log he planned to cut when he tripped and the running chain saw came up and struck his right upper leg area above the knee. He suffered a serious laceration and was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*