Incident date: 2017-04-24
NAICS industry code: 325620

An employee was trouble shooting a planer that was making noise. The employee took off the guards and disassembled the planer. The employee plugged the motor in and while he was checking the bearings his right hand contacted the rotating planer blades resulting in multiple finger amputations.

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