Incident date: 2025-04-08
NAICS industry code: 331511

A temporary employee was cutting a pipe with a saw. The saw blade bound up, kicked back, and hit the employee's foot just behind the steel toe, cutting the big toe at the joint and severing a tendon. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
code_source: title: Saws  except chainsaws
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate