OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691816
APPLIED CONCRETE REPAIR & RESTORATION
SLC, UT·
Event description
Employee's wrist tendons severed when grinder kicks back
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was smoothing epoxy port injectors with a grinder when the right ang le head grinder struck an object and kicked back, dropping onto his left wrist a nd severing arteries, tendons, and nerves.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 564
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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