OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887950
KICK BACK,TREE LIMB,CHAIN SAW,CONSTRUCTION,LACERATION,SLIPPERY SURFACE,STRUCK BY,FACE
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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