Incident date: 2025-04-18
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was lifting a 2-yard container to dump it into a truck when the container shifted and crushed the employee's left hand against the side of the truck, resulting in an open fracture and dislocation that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation of the little finger.

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