Incident date: 2017-09-18
NAICS industry code: 562111

On 09/18/2017, at approximately 6:45 a.m., an employee was loading a dumpster onto the truck to be dumped in the back. The dumpster was stuck in a pothole. The winch pulled the dumpster until it released from the pothole and the employee's finger was caught between the truck and the dumpster, amputating the left ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high