OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809285
NC DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES & COMM. DEV., DIV OF
RALEIGH, NC·
Event description
Employee's hand amputated by radial arm saw
Investigation abstract
On Thursday, December 15, 1988, Employee #1 was operating a 16 in. DeWalt radial arm saw, catalog #40020, in the maintenance shop. While Employee #1 cut an appr oximately 30 in. long 2 by 6 board about 1 in. from the left end of the board, h is left hand was pulled into the blade and amputated. Employee #1 required hospi talization. The cut began at the smallest finger and continued diagonally across the hand, leaving only a portion of the thumb.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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