| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-14 | Fort Lauderdale | Fl | Mowrey Elevator Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was holding a sheet of metal to cut for the controller box. The sheet metal slipped from his hand while using a 4" hand grinder and sliced a finger on his left hand. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2021-05-03 | Centennial | Co | Forgen, LLC | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| At 9:45 a.m. on May 3, 2021, an employee was sitting in front of an iron plate, using a hand grinder to remove tack welds from it. The wheel jumped, slipped on his right leg, and cut him just above the knee on the side. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-28 | Dallas | Tx | Pegasus Link Constructors | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cleaning a concrete form using a hand grinder with a wire wheel. His right thumb was caught in the tool's handle and lacerated. | |||||
| 2020-03-19 | Watertown | Wisconsin | Fisher Barton Blades, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was removing burrs from a rotating shaft with a hand grinder. The shaft caught the employee's glove and pulled the employee's left hand into the roller, causing two broken fingers and nerve damage for which surgery was needed. | |||||
| 2019-09-24 | Muskogee | Oklahoma | Oakley's Terminal | Thigh(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was welding near another employee who was using a hand grinder. The grinder wheel struck the employee, breaking the employee's femur. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-05 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | B&H Construction, LLC | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was operating a hand grinder. When the employee stood up to respond to another employee, the cord/plug of the hand grinder struck him in the neck. The employee was hospitalized and received stitches in the neck area. | |||||
| 2019-03-13 | Manheim | Pennsylvania | Deer Country Farm and Lawn, Inc. | Head and trunk | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| An electric hand grinder was being used to cut an empty metal 55-gallon drum that had held motor oil. The drum exploded. The employee suffered a broken facial bone, moderate burns on the side of the face, and burns to the esophagus and lungs. | |||||
| 2018-03-13 | Prosper | Texas | Skinner Masonry, LLP | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a hand grinder when part of the grinder wheel blade came loose and struck his right eye, puncturing it and requiring hospitalization. The grinder was guarded a the time. | |||||
| 2017-07-11 | Medley | Florida | Caribbean Fibers, Inc. | Face | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On July 11, 2017, at approximately 1:55 p.m., an employee was operating a hand grinder to grind down a metal spur on a machine component when the grinder slipped from his hands. The grinder then bounced back and hit him in the face, causing a facial fracture/laceration. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2017-04-06 | Jacksonville | Florida | Southern Wheel & Rim | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a mounted hand grinder to prepare the bevel on a rim for welding when the grinding wheel broke and lacerated his left index finger, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-01-12 | Skiatook | Oklahoma | World Wide Exchangers, LLC | Foot (feet) | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was dressing a heat exchanger plate with a hand grinder. The grinder blade caught the edge of the groove being ground and the grinder fell out of the employee's hand striking the top of the employee's left foot and causing a laceration including separation of the big toe tendon. | |||||
| 2016-05-13 | Pryor | Oklahoma | American Casting | Upper arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a portable hand grinder and cut their bicep. | |||||
| 2015-06-09 | Live Oak | Florida | TAYLOR INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. |
| An employee was making sure that no one was in the way of the forklift as the forklift driver was lowering a 20 ft long metal beam onto the ground. The employee then pulled the hand grinder's electrical cord that was on the ground so that it wouldn't get crushed by the metal beam, but instead his right index finger was crushed by the beam resulting in the amputation of his right index finger from the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2015-01-06 | Golden | Colorado | Kimmel Mechanical, Inc. | Knee(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| Employee was using a portable hand grinder to cut a steel pipe. The grinder kicked back and lacerated the employees knee cutting an artery. | |||||