Incident date: 2024-02-25
NAICS industry code: 336360

An employee was clearing a jam in a vacuum. Four fingers on his right hand were caught inside the collection bag by the vacuum's fan blades. He suffered an amputation to the index fingertip, abrasions to the thumb, a skin avulsion to the middle finger, and abrasions and bruising to the 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, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high