Incident date: 2018-03-30
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was trying to remove a jammed piece of wood from a saw when the saw caught the wood, resulting in a fracture of the employee's forearm that required hospitalization and surgery. The saw was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate