Incident date: 2022-02-09
NAICS industry code: 337110

An employee was planing a 12"x37"x3/4" piece of maple when the tip of her glove was caught by carbon rollers on the planer, pulling her left middle finger into the planer. The employee suffered a partial finger amputation between the middle and proximal joints.

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