Wow KS, glad it wasn't worse.
Few quick comments not related to above. First yes I well safety glasses as well as helmet with mesh shield, safety gloves, steel toed boots, and chaps. I've seen personally some evil chainsaw accidents. Average accident requires 100+ sutures.
Now, I've got several friends that run logging companies, a couple that are 2-3 generation old. I've learned a lot as they have taught me. First, they spend 80% of their time looking at the canopy before saw touches tree, looking for effectors of fall and widow makers in the tree being cut and the adjacent trees and their limbs and affect on fall of the tree. Then while cutting, their eyes are skyward 2/3s the time, watching what is going on above them of any danger and what the cut tree may be starting to do. The other 1/3 they are watching the type of chips coming out of the cut, wanting dry and clean, not wet or dark with which may indicate poor or rotten wood that may split unexpectedly. They know a big tree is more predictable than a smaller tree.
I watched a hinge cutting youtube by one of the nations experts the other day and it was scary the crap he taught. He might as well been teaching to drive drunk, no seat belt, with a leg out the door driving 90 mph. Guraanteed to get someone hurt or killed that he will never know about.
And while most of you will wear chaps and helmet, statistically accidents to arm and hands rank slightly higher than to the legs.
Be careful, especially while hinging and if it looks too large to hinge, then fell cut it. Deer ain't worth it.