Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 150917.015 - Employee is killed when caught in planer machine

Accident Summary Nr: 150917.015 -- Report ID: 0627100 -- Event Date: 10/27/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1631156.015	10/27/2022		321113	Hixson Lumber Company, Llc

Abstract: At 7:00 a.m. on October 27, 2022 an employee was prepping, smoothing lumber. The employee, a planer operator, was inserting wood boards into the Yates - American A-20 planer machine. A coworker, an operator helper, noticed the machine got jammed. The coworker told the employee "to stop, do not do anything, I am going over to the maintenance section to get someone to fix the machine". When the coworker returned, he noticed the employee's legs shaking and stuck inside the shaft of the planer machine. The employee was killed due to severe head trauma.

Keywords: Blunt force, Caught In, Head, Jammed, Leg, Planer, Stuck

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1631156.015	72	M	Fatality

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