Incident date: 2023-09-27
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was fixing/cleaning up a pipe that had been welded using a handheld angle grinder. A piece of the grinding wheel broke and struck the employee's arm. The grinder then became caught and kicked back up toward the employee's face, resulting in a facial laceration and fractures to the teeth, nose, and face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate