# Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury at Professional Abatement & Remediation Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2015118649` · 11/15/2015 · TROY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Vacuum cleaners
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Abatement & Remediation Technologies
- **Location:** Bodine Aluminum, TROY, MISSOURI, 63379
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*