Incident date: 2023-10-14
NAICS industry code: 327215

On October 14, 2023, an employee was removing a rubber hose that had been wound on a removal tool that unplugs it from a vacuum conveyor. The hose wraps on a cone until it over-torques and shuts off. The hose had stored residual energy and unwound, pinching and amputating the employee's right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Hoses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high