Incident date: 2024-02-26
NAICS industry code: 541380

At about 12:45 p.m. on February 26, 2024, an employee was scrapping a door frame, using an angle grinder to trim the frame and then discard the scrap into a metal recycling bin. Some of the material shifted, and the angle grinder lacerated his right knee. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Grinders  handtool
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate