Incident date: 2024-10-03
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was using a hock vacuum on the harvest floor to clean and sanitize beef when the vacuum suctioned to the employee's abdomen, causing burns to 4% of their abdomen. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Industrial vacuums
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Abdomen  unspecified
severity: moderate