Incident date: 2020-01-09
NAICS industry code: 325212

An employee opened the grinder for inspection and cleaning. He stepped up on some angles on the front of the grinder, held onto the machinery with one hand, and rotated the grinder blade with the other hand. As he was manually rotating the blades in reverse, his left middle fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high