Incident date: 2020-08-28
NAICS industry code: 333415

An employee was sanding the rough edge of a stainless steel sheet after a plasma cut using a 4.5 inch electric hand held grinder with a sanding disk when the employee's hair was caught in the tool's rotating assembly. The sanding disk cut the employee's left temple and 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: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Face, n.e.c.
severity: moderate