Incident date: 2020-03-20
NAICS industry code: 444110

On March 20, 2020, at about 11:00 AM, an employee was cutting a four-foot piece of wood on a radial saw when the wood kicked back and injured the employee s left index finger. At the hospital, the finger was amputated to the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high