| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-28 | Columbia | Mo | Columbia Country Club | Lower leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sawing a downed tree when the tree rolled and his left calf was cut by the chainsaw. The cut required surgery. | |||||
| 2021-05-27 | Grapevine | Tx | Green Scaping Co | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on a ladder sawing off a dead tree branch. The employee fell off the ladder onto the ground and suffered multiple broken ribs and a spinal column injury. | |||||
| 2021-03-24 | Sulphur Springs | Tx | Brydl Contracting, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was mixing two-cycle fuel for a concrete saw when sparks from concrete sawing ignited the gasoline vapors, causing a fire and burning the employee. The employee sustained severe burns to the hands, neck, and face. | |||||
| 2021-02-25 | Elberton | Ga | Baston Monuments, Inc. | Arm(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was sawing wood block strips with a table saw and sustained a severe laceration across the top of the left arm. | |||||
| 2020-08-19 | Punxsutawney | Pa | R & S Machine Company | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was sawing tubing on a horizontal band saw. He was brushing chips away from the saw blade when it amputated his left middle fingertip just behind the nail, also lacerating his ring finger. | |||||
| 2020-05-15 | Palm Harbor | Florida | True Line Coring & Cutting of Tampa, Inc. | Skull | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was hydraulic hand-sawing on a concrete wall when the diamond-tipped blade made contact with a wood beam. The saw handle kicked back and knocked the employee off a 4-foot baker's scaffold. The employee sustained a skull fracture. | |||||
| 2019-07-26 | Chicago | Illinois | Anderson Pump | Nonclassifiable | Fire |
| On July 26, 2019, at approximately 8:30 a.m., an electrician was using a reciprocating saw to remove a bolt from a sump pit at a gas station in order to make a repair. As the employee was sawing the metal bolt, a flash fire occurred and the employee was burned on several areas of the upper body. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-15 | Abilene | Texas | Luther Construction Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was sawing a board when the saw kicked the board back. The saw blade contacted the employee's left hand, lacerating it and amputating the ring finger. | |||||
| 2018-09-24 | Dyess Afb | Texas | AML Environmental, LP | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on a 6- to 8-foot A-frame ladder, sawing an overhead pipe. The side of the pipe gave way and hit the ladder, knocking the employee to the ground below. The employee suffered a broken tibia and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-05-11 | Atkinson | Nebraska | Olson Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was waiting for a bundle saw to complete its sawing cycle when the employee's left middle finger was caught between two pieces of steel, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-02-27 | Denver | Colorado | People Ready | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was sawing plywood using a table saw and amputated the left index and middle fingertips. | |||||
| 2016-09-23 | Grand Island | Nebraska | Swift Beef Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee's coworker was sawing 1-inch hind shanks, while the employee pulled the product and bagged it after it was cut. A piece of fat was pulled into the saw. When the employee attempted to remove it, her left index finger was amputated just above the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Bowling Green | Ohio | PINNACLE PLASTIC PRODUCTS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On or about August 2, 2016, an employee was sawing pieces of plastic with a band saw when the blade lacerated his left-hand index finger, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-08-24 | Wauwatosa | Wisconsin | Alro Steel Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee received a finger injury while working with a sawing machine. | |||||
| 2015-07-21 | Bethpage | New York | New Line Productions Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee sawing a piece of wood hit a knot while making a making a notch cut, causing the saw to grab the piece of lumber, which then pulled his left hand into the saw blade and amputated his fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-07-03 | Liberal | Kansas | National Beef Packing Co | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee sawing a femur bone sawed into his/her right index finger, lacerating tendons and requiring hospitalization. No hand guard was worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-04-10 | Ocala | Florida | Contemporary Interiors, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was sawing wood when his hand was pulled into the guarded saw blade amputating his left pointer finger at the middle knuckle. | |||||