Incident date: 2016-05-26
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was using a portable grinder to cut a metal stand when the grinder wheel shattered and caught his glove, pulling his hand into the grinder blade. He required surgery and hospitalization for a hand laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate