Incident date: 2016-04-21
NAICS industry code: 238140

On 04/21/16, at approximately 3:00 p.m., an employee was cutting a concrete pipe with a cut-off saw. The blade became stuck, and the guard that covers the blade struck the left side of the employee's face, fracturing the orbital bone and causing lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate