OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14251664
PIEDMONT PLANING MILL, INC.
THOMASVILLE, NC·
Event description
Employee struck by board in kickback from woodworking ripsaw
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:30 a.m., on March 1, 1989, Employee #1 was operating a Mattis on 202 ripsaw, cutting 14 to 16 ft long wood lumber to width. A splintered piece of wood was kicked back by the saw, striking Employee #1 in the lower left abdo men and piercing his body. Employee #1 required hospitalization. The safety kick back fingers were indicated to be in an up position following the accident. Furt her investigation of the kickback fingers found that the fingers were unevenly w orn, bent, or broken and would not return to the proper position when raised and released by the side hand lever.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 50 Male
- Nature of injury
- Puncture (18)
- Part of body
- ABDOMEN (1)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Sawing machine operators (727)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- FLYING OBJECT ACTION (5)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.