Incident date: 2020-03-24
NAICS industry code: 238330

An employee was grinding concrete floor edges using a handheld grinder. When he put the grinder down, his left glove got caught on the wheel as the machine was winding down. He suffered a closed, nondisplaced fracture at the middle of the left little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate