Incident date: 2017-01-12
NAICS industry code: 332410

An employee was dressing a heat exchanger plate with a hand grinder. The grinder blade caught the edge of the groove being ground and the grinder fell out of the employee's hand striking the top of the employee's left foot and causing a laceration including separation of the big toe tendon.

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: Foot (feet), n.e.c.
severity: moderate