Incident date: 2018-12-04
NAICS industry code: 337127

An employee was manually feeding boards into the planer to put a jointing edge along the long side of the boards. Their left hand slipped, bounced off the guard's edge, and contacted the cutting blade. The left ring fingertip was amputated up to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high