Incident date: 2017-04-06
NAICS industry code: 332722

An employee was cleaning a build-up of metal shavings on the carrier plate of the double disc grinder when her right middle finger was caught and amputated between a hole in the carrier plate and the rotating disc.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high