Incident date: 2017-05-13
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was using a pedestal grinder to grind a work piece when his thumb was caught between the work piece and the grinding wheel, avulsing his thumbnail and the tissue below the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: moderate