Incident date: 2019-05-25
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was ripping plywood with a circular saw and prepping it to attach sheet rock when the saw hit a knot hole and bucked, landing on the employee's left hand and amputating the middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Saws-powered, except chainsaws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high