Incident date: 2015-10-22
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was operating a planer when a piece of wood got stuck in the output roller. The employee attempted to remove the stuck piece of wood and caught her arm in the roller. She suffered a broken and displaced thumb, a crushed forearm and lacerations to the arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate