Incident date: 2019-07-24
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was unjamming boards from a rip saw and contacted the spinning blades. He sustained three lacerations to the left hand and forearm, broken fourth and fifth metacarpal bones in the left hand, and a broken ulna in the left forearm. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate