Incident date: 2016-06-02
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was grinding tubing and then turned the grinder off. He opened the grinder and attempted to remove the ground-up tubing. The blades were still moving at the time, and they amputated three fingers on his left hand and two fingers on his right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high