Incident date: 2021-02-05
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee was using a handheld grinder to grind down welds on a trailer. The employee's two middle fingers contacted the grinding disk, resulting in an amputation to the fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high