Alert 00 – 34 Fatality: Cut – Off Wheel Fractures During Use

Alert 00 – 34 Fatality: Cut – Off Wheel Fractures During Use

WHAT HAPPENED:

An air-powered angle grinder was being used to cut grooves into cast iron with a cut-off wheel. The cutoff wheel fractured during use and a large fragment of the wheel went through the worker’s face shield and into the worker’s face. The worker died as a result of the injury.

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