Incident date: 2016-10-06
NAICS industry code: 238150

An employee was cutting wood wedges with a skill saw on a boom lift when the saw jumped and cut the three middle fingers on his left hand. His middle finger was amputated from the bottom of the fingernail up.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high