Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170253942 - Employee's hand injured when contacts turning planer heads

Accident Summary Nr: 170253942 -- Report ID: 1055340 -- Event Date: 03/21/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111493128	03/27/1990	2421	0	Olympic Wood Products Inc

Abstract: Employee #1, a planer operator, turned off the in-feed rolls but did not shut down the planer heads before trying to remove a piece of debris. He was reaching under a portion of the planer head guard when the top of his hand struck the turning heads, shearing off the skin. The planer had not been shut down, deenergized, or positively locked out before Employee #1 reached under the guard. The company did not have any kind of lockout/tagout program.

Keywords: ROTATING PARTS, PLANING MACHINE, WORK RULES, STRUCK AGAINST, LOCKOUT, SKIN, HAND

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111493128			Non Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators

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