Incident date: 2024-05-15
NAICS industry code: 562212

An employee was hooking a dumpster onto the lift devices located on their garbage truck when their left hand got caught between the dumpster and the truck, resulting in crush injuries and a thumb amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Garbage trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high