Incident date: 2021-06-10
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee shut off a planer machine and lifted the door to free a jammed board. The centrifugal force of the cutter head was still moving and when he pulled the board back, the cutter head caught his right hand, resulting in four finger amputations and a laceration to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high