# Cuts, lacerations at Wright Tree Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020054515` · 5/14/2020 · HOOPA, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Chainsaws-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wright Tree Service, Inc
- **Location:** Highway 96, Carpenter Lane, HOOPA, CALIFORNIA, 95546
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a chainsaw on the ground to create a notch in the tree. He had completed the face cut and begun to make the undercut when his foot slipped and the chainsaw's chain lacerated his right thumb. He was hospitalized.

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