Incident date: 2020-12-09
NAICS industry code: 236220

On December 9, 2020, an employee was using an electric circular saw to cut wooden 2-by-4s. The blade stopped moving. The employee backed the blade up and was moving the wood when the saw turned on and amputated his left middle finger at the nail (with bone loss).

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), unspecified
severity: high