Incident date: 2018-10-08
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was showing a coworker the adjustment needed on one of the blade heads on a planer machine. The blade head lacerated the employee's right thumb, index, ring, and little fingers and partially amputated the thumb and index finger. The employee was hospitalized. The blade head was unguarded 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), unspecified
severity: high