Incident date: 2015-11-15
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was moving a 4-inch-diameter hose to an industrial vacuum cleaner when his clothing and hand were sucked into the hose. The high pressure suction caused the capillaries in his hand to swell. He was hospitalized and required surgery to reduce the swelling.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Vacuum cleaners
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate