Incident date: 2024-02-28
NAICS industry code: 562212

The injured employee was moving a waste dumpster with another employee to position it at a vehicle for dumping when the injured employee's right hand was caught between with the container and the vehicle. The tip of the employee's little finger was crushed, resulting in medical amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high