Incident date: 2023-05-25
NAICS industry code: 321911

An employee was attaching a vacuum hose manifold to the vacuum unit when suction pulled the employee's left hand into the impeller resulting in amputations to their middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Vacuum cleaners
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high