Incident date: 2019-04-10
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was operating a planer feed table. As he was clearing a jam, his left hand was caught between the speed-up roll and a piece of timber. He suffered amputations to the left ring and middle fingers to the first and second joints. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high