Incident date: 2019-05-03
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was repairing the speed sensor alignment on a plastic grinder's out-feed blower. A pipe wrench on the blower shaft spun around and caught his hand between the wrench and the blower housing resulting in lacerations to his hand and a crushing injury to his middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate