Incident date: 2018-09-17
NAICS industry code: 332111

On September 17, 2018, an employee was testing a steel hammer handle in the gripper of an all-steel handle rougher when the employee's hand was caught between the steel hammer handle and a 50-grit belt, avulsing the employee's posterior right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate