Incident date: 2016-03-09
NAICS industry code: 321113

On 3/9/16 at 9:30am an employee had serviced the planer, removed his lock, and started the machine.  He observed a piece of wood near the point of operation and reached towards the planer blades to remove the wood and his fingers contacted the rotating planer blades resulting in amputation of part of the right-hand index and middle fingers.

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