Incident date: 2016-06-02
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee finished adjusting the blades on a four-headed planer machine. He then shut off the motor and was wiping oil off the machine when a blade grabbed his rag and pulled his hand into the cutting head. The blade amputated his right thumb and index finger and damaged his right middle finger. The blade was still moving at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high