Incident date: 2018-07-24
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was changing out the knife of a wood planer. After shutting down the machine, his hand entered it before the knife had completely stopped. As a result, his right hand had to be medically amputated to the wrist.

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: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: high