Incident date: 2019-08-09
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was cutting a wooden board with a saw to make skids when the board kicked back and the sawblade hit his left thumb, resulting in a thumb amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high