Incident date: 2019-08-31
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was standing behind a saw picking up wood as it was being cut when a piece of wood kicked back and struck him. The piece of wood impaled his back and came out of his lower body. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate