Incident date: 2019-07-15
NAICS industry code: 561730

While cutting limbs from a tree, an employee sustained a severe laceration to the arm/wrist from a chainsaw. The injury required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Chainsaws-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate