Incident date: 2021-11-19
NAICS industry code: 339940

An employee was cleaning saw dust from the exit end of an automatic, double-sided planer with a compressed air nozzle. The employee's hand was caught in the machine, resulting in severe lacerations and a degloving injury requiring surgery. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate