Incident date: 2015-02-10
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was operating a hand-held grinder when it kicked back and caused a severe laceration on the side of his face and blindness in both eyes. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate