# Fractures and dislocations at Personal Touch by JR Rivas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043838` · 4/27/2020 · DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Personal Touch by JR Rivas, Inc.
- **Location:** 1374 Jefferson Road, DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA, 36732
- **NAICS:** 113310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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