OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002989
MCWA HDQTRS
ROCHESTER, NY·
Event description
Employee severely cut by power saw
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:00 p.m. on February 22, 1988, Employee #1 was using a power s aw to cut through an 8 in. a/c pipe. The saw kicked back, causing him to stumble backward. The saw's spinning blade went up toward him, striking him near his ar mpit. Employee #1 was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital, where he was trea ted for a severe cut to the inner part of his upper left arm.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 22
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 864
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.