Incident date: 2025-04-30
NAICS industry code: 562111

Employees were working with a rear-end truck and servicing a dumpster. The dumpster was lifted up and shifted to the right. When the dumpster was coming down, the injured employee's left index finger was caught between a lever and the dumpster. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Garbage trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high