Incident date: 2018-09-27
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was standing on the passenger-side rear step of a recycling truck, moving house to house to pick up recycling material. The sweep blade in the truck's hopper activated and began to push a cardboard box out of the hopper. As the employee tried to keep the box from falling out of the back of the truck, his foot became lodged in the box; the sweep blade came down on the box and his left foot, causing a compound fracture of his ankle as well as a muscle injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate