Incident date: 2024-07-05
NAICS industry code: 561311

An employee was loading trash into the back of a sanitation truck when the contents of a box started to fall out. While putting the contents back in the box, the compactor blade crushed his right index, middle, and ring fingers. The employee sustained a partial amputation of their right index finger.

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: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high