Incident date: 2024-10-07
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was cleaning a planer bander when the photo-sensing eye was tripped and the press started moving. The employee was pinched between the conveyor roller and a plate. The employee sustained lacerations, bruises, and abrasions to the lower extremities that required stitches and staples, as well as compartment syndrome. The machine was not completely de-energized or locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Multiple surface and flesh wounds
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations  unspecified
severity: moderate