Incident date: 2024-07-01
NAICS industry code: 311613

An employee was closing the trash compactor door when his left index fingertip became caught in the door-latching mechanism. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high