Incident date: 2021-05-04
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was holding the handle of a rough planer head and pushing it into place. It started to bind up, then overshot the home position. The tip of the employee's finger was crushed between the planer's handle and its frame, causing an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high