Incident date: 2016-08-25
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was changing a wheel on a hand held grinder when it actuated resulting in tissue, muscle, and tendon damage to both of his hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc., unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate