Incident date: 2021-02-12
NAICS industry code: 333298

An employee was sanding the end of a 1-inch-wide, 1/4-inch-thick, 12- to 13-inch-long rod on a pedestal grinder using a sanding disk attachment. The sanding disk caught the rod and pulled it toward the machine, causing the employee's gloved left hand to come into contact with the sanding disk. The employee's thumb tip was amputated to the cuticle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Sanders-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high