Incident date: 2016-12-18
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was placing trash in a trash compactor outside the back of the store when the sharp metal edge of the compactor avulsed his right middle finger. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trash compactors
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate