# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at US Forest Service Ranger Station
> OSHA SIR `2025077030` · 7/19/2025 · MONTROSE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Chainsaws
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** US Forest Service Ranger Station
- **Location:** Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, MONTROSE, COLORADO, 81401
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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