Incident date: 2017-08-16
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was pulling boards from a re-saw chain and feeding them through a ripsaw when a wood shard ejected from the ripsaw. The wood shard struck the employee and became embedded in the right buttocks, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Buttock(s)
severity: moderate