Incident date: 2020-06-26
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee was using a wire wheel brush on a pedestal grinder to deburr a piece of strut. The wheel caught the employee's glove and pulled in his right hand, causing a degloving injury to the middle, ring, and little fingers. He was hospitalized.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate