Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 115826.015 - Employee operating planer is struck by log causing injuries

Accident Summary Nr: 115826.015 -- Report ID: 1054116 -- Event Date: 11/08/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1360001.015	11/14/2018	0811	113110	317722469 - Southern Oregon Lumber Inc

Abstract: At 1:45 p.m. on November 8, 2018, an employee shut off the infeed and outfeed to a planer in order to clean out wood chips behind the planer. The employee had not shut down the machine properly and it started up again. He was struck by a 4 inch diameter landscape log coming out of the planer which pushed him through a wall. The employee sustained head and chest injuries requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Automatic Restart, Chest, Energized, Fracture, Guard, Head, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Log, Lumber, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Planing Machine, Skull, Struck Against, Struck By, Unguarded, Wood Chips

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1360001.015	32	M	Hospitalized injury		Milling and planing machine operators	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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