Incident date: 2025-02-16
NAICS industry code: 562111

A commercial waste dumpster was being emptied. An employee's finger was caught between the dumpster and the garbage truck, resulting in amputation of the fourth fingertip on their left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Garbage trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high