Incident date: 2020-04-30
NAICS industry code: 424810

An employee was cutting metal with a small handheld grinder when his hands flinched, which caused the tool to come toward his face. The rotating disk severed the left side of his lip and his face below the eye. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Open wounds, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate