Incident date: 2020-09-17
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was cutting steel with a cutting wheel on a rotary grinder when the cutting blade broke apart and a piece of the blade struck his inner right arm. He suffered an arm laceration that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate