Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221452550

CEN CAL BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS INC.

Event
Amputated, Blade, Contact, Cutting, Finger, Hand, Kick Back, Laceration, Plywood, Portable Power Tool, Saw, Stacked, Wood
NAICS
238130
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345765895
Employer profile
CEN CAL BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS INC.
Summary number
221452550
Report ID
0950625
Project type
A
Construction end-use
B

Event description

Employee receives amputation and laceration injuries to left

Investigation abstract

At 9:00 a.m. on December 31, 2021, an employee worked as a carpenter to make a stairwell. The employee cut three quarter inch plywood into strips using a portable saw and placed a piece of plywood on a stack of wood to make a cut. While cutting the saw kicked back and severed the employees' fingers from the left hand. The employee was hospitalized to treat laceration and amputation injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 27 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    567

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