From https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/labor-union-leader-calls-bellagio-death-a-freak-accident-911-audio-released-2911176/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=latest&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=Labor union leader calls Bellagio death a ‘freak accident’; 911 audio released :
Google represents it as most likely a hand-held 14" circular saw for cutting concrete.
I used one once for two very simple cuts and it scared the p!ss out of me.
Tommy White, secretary/treasurer of Laborer’s International Union of North America Local 872, said he’s been told by workers at the site that an issue with a “quickie saw” Saturday led to the accident that killed 37-year-old Tizoc Antonio of Las Vegas.
“It wasn’t a safety issue, all the safety protocol was in place, it’s just that the blade bound up on the quickie saw and it ran up on the (steel) column and the saw kicked back at him,” White said. “I’ve seen those saws kick back … the last place you want to be is in the way of that saw kicking backwards.”
Cut-off saws, nicknamed “quickie saws,” are portable and used to make quick cuts on various materials on construction sites. They have the potential to be dangerous because they have unguarded blades that operate at high speeds, according to the Missouri Department of Labor.
On Tuesday, Las Vegas police released audio of a 911 call from a woman who reported that “the saw bounced and hit” the worker.
The caller stayed on the phone for more than 7 minutes, directing ambulances to the construction site.
“There’s blood everywhere,” she said. “Please just send an ambulance.”
The caller told police that the injured man, whose age and name she did not know, was still breathing when co-workers put their shirts on his neck and applied pressure.
Co-workers began performing CPR while the woman directed ambulances to the scene. She said the injury was accidental and not intentional.
Four minutes into the call, the woman said the worker stopped breathing.
Google represents it as most likely a hand-held 14" circular saw for cutting concrete.
I used one once for two very simple cuts and it scared the p!ss out of me.