NORTH Melbourne veteran Brent Harvey has narrowly avoided serious injury after an accident while operating a chainsaw.

Harvey slipped when cutting down a tree with the chainsaw going at “full throttle” and was lucky to escape with a minor cut above his left knee.

The 37-year-old posted a photo of the laceration on his personal Facebook page on Saturday night.

“That was close! I was cutting a tree down and slipped with the chainsaw going at full throttle. Nicked my leg and am very lucky to have escaped with only this cut! Phew!” he wrote.

Round 18

Harvey became the third person in AFL/VFL history to play 400 games, in 2015 and he requires just 18 more appearances to overtake Michael Tuck’s record games record (426).