^^It did. We were cutting down some dead trees in the yard to use as firewood in our maple sap evaporator. We'd cut through the trunk, but the tree had large radial spoke branches which were holding the whole thing a few feet off the ground. Hubby was trying to trim the two or three branches which were supporting the weight of the trunk. I think I was holding the tree, more or less, so it didn't roll onto him when the support went -- there was some important reason I was standing close to the tree during this operation.
He cut through the critical branch, but happened to be standing behind me (up against a row of bushes so there was nowhere for him to go) when it fell so I couldn't really move without stumbling into the still-running chainsaw.
I chose to let the tree fall on my foot.
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