Tree Worker Injured, Taken To Hospital With Chainsaw Blade In His Neck

ROSS TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – A tree trimmer was seriously injured after being cut in the neck with a chainsaw.

Police say the 21-year-old worker from Adler Tree Service in Gibsonia was in a tree in Ross Township when the accident happened.

The worker was in a harness halfway up the tree along Perry Highway when the accident happened.

Police say something happened and the chainsaw blade partially embedded in the worker's neck and shoulder area.

A co-worker climbed the tree and brought the man down. A doctor on the scene then stabilized the victim.

Police were able to get the motor off the chainsaw, but left the blade in the man's neck to keep him from bleeding to death.

He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital and had surgery to remove the blade.

Doctors say the victim is very lucky because the chainsaw missed major arteries, and just cut into muscle.

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