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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wright Tree Service, Inc

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wright Tree Service, Inc, Highway 96, Carpenter Lane, HOOPA, CALIFORNIA 95546 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

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.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Chainsaws-powered

Wright Tree Service Inc.

On April 10, 2025, an employee was climbing a fixed ladder on a chip truck. He fell backward from the ladder, striking his head on the ground and suffering a brain bleed.

Wright Tree Service Inc.

On October 3, 2024, an employee was using a chainsaw to trim trees. They were moving a limb when the chainsaw contacted their left forearm and lacerated it.

Wright Tree Service Inc.

An employee was working as a spotter for a tree truck that was being parked near a tree. The employee was behind the truck when he was pinned between the truck and the tree. The employee sustained a lacerated liver.

Wright Tree Service Inc.

A tree fell on an employee, resulting in a neck fracture and forehead laceration.

Wright Tree Service Inc.

An employee was ascending a tree to trim the top off with a chainsaw. At a height of 20 feet, he clipped into the equipment holding line. He then fell from the tree and landed on a chainsaw on the ground. The employee sustained a broken femur.

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Mako Contracting, LLC

An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.

East Penn Manufacturing

An employee was using a utility knife to cut honeycomb paper when the knife amputated their left index fingertip.

Ash Brothers Fireplace and Chimney Co

An employee was cleaning a resident's chimney. While using a drill, the employee's glove became caught in the drill and their finger was fractured.

RPM & Associates Inc

An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tenaris Hickman

An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Advanced Mulch Inc

An employee was helping to set up a mulch blowing truck when they were struck by an oncoming vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured knee, a concussion, and a head laceration; they also received stitches on their arm.

4 Seasons Property Services, Inc.

An employee was rappelling down a tree. When he was most of the way down, he fell on the ground and suffered a broken pelvis.

Boston Land Co Management Services Inc

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood when the saw cut his thumb, index, and middle fingers. His index finger was amputated and he was hospitalized.

Parm's Landscape Management

An employee was mowing a residential lawn at a client's house. The mower slid on the land and tipped over onto him. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra in the neck and partial paralysis.

Department of Justice - USMS

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

M1 Support Services

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

Dept. of Defense - USN

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

Sycuan Casino Resort

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.