Incident date: 2025-06-05
NAICS industry code: 326291

An employee was operating a rubber roller grinder and had just completed the grinding process. He changed the rotation of the spindle to the clockwise position and began to clean rubber dust off the rollers with a shop rag. The rag caught on the roller and pulled his hand into the grinding wheel, resulting in a broken wrist, broken fingers, and lacerations to the hand and fingers. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Multiple upper extremities locations  n.e.c.
severity: moderate