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SAFENET

Wildland Fire Safety & Health Reporting Network

SAFENET Event Information

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SAFENET ID:

20250605-0002

Event Start Date:

06/05/2025 1330

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Chap strike

Fire Number:

 

State:

Oregon

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Support

Stage of Incident:

Non-incident

Position Title:

 

Task:

Post-fire hazard tree removal 

Management Level:

N/A

Resources Involved:

 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Human Factors

Human Factors:

Situational Awareness  

Other Factors:

 

Narrative

Describe in detail what happened including the concern or potential issue, the environment (weather, terrain, fire behavior, etc), and the resulting health issue.

Engine crew was assigned to remove hazard trees from campground post wildfire. Sawyer had just started cutting for the day, after felling a small tree, they stood up from a crouched position while the chain was still spinning. It made contact with their chaps, pulled out some of the kevlar lining and was subsequently stopped without any harm to the sawyer.

Immediate Action Taken

Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.

Felling operations was immediately halted, I then checked and verified with the sawyer that they were uninjured and safe. Accident was then reported to supervisor and a discussion was had as how to avoid it in the future. Additionally an AAR was conducted in relation to the incident.

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