Incident date: 2025-04-30
NAICS industry code: 332812

An employee in the long bar processing area had completed work for the day. The last material that had passed through a machine had been discharged on the exit side. The employee approached the machine and his left hand was caught between the rotating grinding stone and the support rollers. The employee sustained severe abrasive injuries to the back of his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Abrasions
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate