Incident date: 2015-08-18
NAICS industry code: 445292

An employee was dumping a plastic trash cart into a compactor. Her right ring fingertip got stuck between the plastic receptacle and the metal frame around it. She sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high