Incident date: 2022-08-22
NAICS industry code: 331210

At about 2:45 p.m. on August 22, 2022, an employee was using a hand grinder to grind down a weld bead on a shaft. The grinder cut through the bead, and the change in momentum caused his left hand to contact the grinder wheel. He suffered a laceration to the back of the hand between the thumb and index finger, and was hospitalized. The grinder was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate