Incident date: 2021-12-27
NAICS industry code: 326199

At about 9:00 a.m. on December 27, 2021, an employee was feeding a scrap sheet into a grinder when their right hand was caught between a bar (which kept tension on the sheet) and the steel frame of the machine guarding. The employee suffered bruising to the hand and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate