Incident date: 2019-12-11
NAICS industry code: 423310

On December 11, 2019, at approximately 11:00 a.m., an employee was attempting to clear a piece of wood that was lodged in a lumber finish planer when a rotating cutter head contacted the employee's right pinky finger, resulting in an amputation.

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), unspecified
severity: high