Incident date: 2017-06-12
NAICS industry code: 332439

An employee was using an angle grinder with a cutting wheel to remove tabs that were incorrectly welded on a metal rack when the grinder hit the rack and came back across his left pinky finger, deeply lacerating it.

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