Incident date: 2016-10-11
NAICS industry code: 561740

An employee was emptying trash into a compactor using a 1/2-ton tilt truck. He attempted to lift and dump the tilt truck up and over the compactor's gate bar when it fell. As he grabbed the bottom stabilizer bar, it caught and partially amputated his right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high