Incident date: 2018-11-11
NAICS industry code: 531110

Two employees were pulling a loaded dumpster along a sidewalk. The dumpster's wheels locked up, pushing the front of it into a scaffold on the sidewalk; one employee's hand was wedged between the dumpster and the scaffold's pole. His left hand swelled.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate