Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201144201 - Employee cut by damaged skill saw

Accident Summary Nr: 201144201 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 08/28/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305352080	09/10/2003	8711	541330	Wellbrock Builders

Abstract: At approximately 4:00 p.m. on August 28, 2003, Employee #1, a foreman, was supervising a crew building a bridge addition and a second floor tie in to another building. Employee #1 had a coworker, a mason, put a carborundum blade on a Skill saw and cut a piece of Number 9 rebar. After cutting the rebar the coworker put the standard 7.25-in. saw blade back on the saw and put it in Employee #1's truck. Employee #1 later used the saw to cut plywood frames. Slag had collected inside the guard causing it to fail. As he turned the saw off and was pushing it away and downwards the blade caught his pants leg. Employee #1's right knee and thigh was cut and he was hospitalized.

Keywords: KNEE, ROTATING PARTS, GUARD, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, THIGH, SAW, LACERATION, STRUCK BY

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	305352080			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters

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