Incident date: 2023-09-12
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employees were pushing trash down into a dumpster to prepare the dumpster to be picked up. Employee 2 was using an excavator bucket to push down the trash. The injured employee was on the other side of the dumpster, pushing in a loose piece of trash, when his left hand was struck by the excavator bucket. His left ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high