Abstract: At 10:30 a.m. on December 8, 2004, Employee #1, a member of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department SWAT sniper team, was engaged in live weapons fire training with his team. During the training exercise, Employee #1 was moving down a range while a coworker, another SWAT team member, was reloading a rifle. When the coworker attempted to engage the rifle's safety switch, the trigger of the weapon was inadvertently contacted and the rifle fired one round. The bullet struck Employee #1 in his posterior left thigh and exited through the front of his leg. Employee #1 was hospitalized. As a result of the injury, Employee #1's leg was surgically amputated at the upper thigh.