Incident date: 2024-01-05
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee backed a garbage truck into an alley, stopped the truck, and got out. While the truck was dumping, he realized it was slowly going backward, and he tried to get to the door. His left hand was trapped and scraped between the door and the brick wall of a building, and the little finger was amputated. The incident occurred during a training activity.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Garbage trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high