Incident date: 2023-07-06
NAICS industry code: 238350

An employee was using a jointer to plane wood. As the employee went to push the wood through the jointer, their right hand contacted the jointer blades, resulting in partial amputations to the top of the right index, middle, and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high