Incident date: 2025-06-23
NAICS industry code: 532111

Employees were cleaning out a vacuum pipe system using a motorized drain snake. The snake bound on an obstruction in the pipe, twisted upon itself, and wrapped around an employee's gloved right little finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger just below the nailbed, above the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Plumbing augers, snakes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high