OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887950
JONES OF ANNAPOLIS, INC.
ARNOLD, MD·
Event description
Employee's face cut when struck by chain saw
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:10 p.m. on May 1, 1989, Employee #1 was using a chain saw to clean a building site. It was a rainy day. He was cutting an overhead branch on a tree when the chain saw kicked back off the branch and cut the left side of hi s face from his forehead to his upper lip. He required stitches and stayed in th e hospital for two days.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 54 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FACE (9)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Excavating and loading machine operators (853)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- WEATHER, EARTHQUAKE, ETC. (17)
- 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.