Incident date: 2015-08-15
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was changing the teeth on a saw when the chain used in the lockout/tagout procedure broke, allowing the saw blade to fall and strike the employee's head and knocking him out.  He fell about 2 feet and broke his right leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate