Incident date: 2024-11-27
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was troubleshooting the strapper platen in the planer mill to resolve a jam. His finger became pinched between the safety pin and the hydraulic motor as he was aligning the safety pin, and he sustained a partial amputation near the lower knuckle of the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high