diff --git a/changes/2024-05-30T141430-0500.txt b/changes/2024-05-30T141430-0500.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7639f9959e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/2024-05-30T141430-0500.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixes cut pruning logic; during a previous change, there was a math error that caused no cuts to
+ever be pruned from RocksDB
diff --git a/src/Chainweb/CutDB.hs b/src/Chainweb/CutDB.hs
index ca2cee9fde..50a8d21207 100644
--- a/src/Chainweb/CutDB.hs
+++ b/src/Chainweb/CutDB.hs
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ pruneCuts
 pruneCuts logfun v conf curAvgBlockHeight cutHashesStore = do
     let avgBlockHeightPruningDepth = _cutDbParamsAvgBlockHeightPruningDepth conf
     let pruneCutHeight =
-            avgCutHeightAt v (curAvgBlockHeight - max curAvgBlockHeight avgBlockHeightPruningDepth)
+            avgCutHeightAt v (curAvgBlockHeight - min curAvgBlockHeight avgBlockHeightPruningDepth)
     logfun @T.Text Info $ "pruning CutDB before cut height " <> T.pack (show pruneCutHeight)
     deleteRangeRocksDb (unCasify cutHashesStore)
         (Nothing, Just (pruneCutHeight, 0, maxBound :: CutId))