Incident date: 2018-01-10
NAICS industry code: 517310

An employee was starting up a grinder pulverizer when he noticed that water was leaking from the pulverizer.  As he tried to wipe away the water, his fingers became trapped by one of the pulverizer fins. He suffered a hand injury and was hospitalized. The pulverizer was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Compactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate