Incident date: 2015-08-10
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee operating a planer in the planer mill received lacerations to two fingers on the left hand and a laceration to the left forearm resulting in hospitalization. A board became jammed and the employee tried to push the board through the planner when he was grabbed by the rollers resulting in injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate