Incident date: 2018-12-29
NAICS industry code: 333131

An employee was using a hand-held angle grinder to cut 1/8" wire. As he was cutting the wire it became entangled in the grinding wheel and the wire struck the employee. The employee sustained lacerations to the first and third fingers on the left hand and two tendons were cut on the left index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate