Incident date: 2022-08-04
NAICS industry code: 332813

An employee was smoothing a part on a grinding wheel. The employee backed the grinding wheel away from the part and was feeling the part to make sure it was smooth when his right hand was pulled into the grinding wheel. The employee sustained multiple lacerations to the right index and middle fingers requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate