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What tragic event occurs in Robert Frost’s poem “‘Out, Out—’”?

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Robert Frost, 1954 — Robert Frost “Good fences make good neighbors.” Robert Frost crafted some of the most indelible lines in American poetry in such poems as “Mending Wall” (1914).

In Robert Frost’s 1916 poem "'Out, Out—'", a tragic accident occurs when a young boy’s hand is severed by a buzz saw while he is working. The injury ultimately leads to the boy's death.1