Incident date: 2025-02-20
NAICS industry code: 333515

On February 20, 2025, an employee was operating a cylindrical grinder when their finger became caught between the grinding wheel and stone. The employee's fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high