Incident date: 2025-01-06
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was dumping a rear-load dumpster and unlatched the safety latch to the dumpster as it was coming down. The dumpster shifted and pinched his left index finger, resulting in a severe laceration up to the last knuckle. The employee was hospitalized and sustained a medical amputation of the finger to the knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Dump trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high