Incident date: 2020-07-23
NAICS industry code: 561710

An employee was removing a fabricated roll cage from a tractor using a 4 1/2-inch grinder with a metal cutoff wheel. The employee started cutting the weld. When the employee got to the end of the cut, the wheel hit the center between the tubing and kicked back, jerking the grinder from the employee's hands. The grinder lacerated the employee's hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate