Incident date: 2024-09-09
NAICS industry code: 326150

An employee was cleaning a dust extraction unit with an air hose and sustained lacerations and fractures to multiple digits. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery, including a mid-phalange amputation of his left middle finger and a partial amputation of his left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Industrial vacuums
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high