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Accident: 113745.015 - Employee Operating Circular Saw Cuts Two Fingers
Accident: 113745.015 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 01/18/2019 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1379446.015 | 02/19/2019 | Timber Works Construction Inc. | |||||
| At 1:56 p.m. on January 18, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a construction compan y, was engaged in framing erection work for a new three-story residential buildi ng. He was working from a scaffold and operating a Skilsaw circular saw with a guarded blade measuring approximately 7.25 inches to cut wedges from a 2 by 4 pi ece of lumber. The rotating blade made contact with the employee's left hand an d cut two fingers. The employee was transported by the site foreman to a medica l clinic and then transported by ambulance to a hospital. He was treated for la cerations to his left index and middle fingers and then released without hospita lization. | |||||||
Keywords:
blade, carpenter, circular saw, contact, cutting, equipment operator, finger, fracture, framing, hand, laceration, lumber, residential construction, scaffold
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| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1379446.015 | 48 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: |
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