Incident date: 2025-05-22
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was picking up a dumpster from a client when it slid off the rails. The employee was assisting with attaching the D-ring of the truck cable to a hook located on the grapple of a heavy machine to put the box back onto the rails. The controls were bumped, causing the heavy equipment grapple to come down and pin the employee's hand against the rail of the truck. The base of their hand was crushed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Heavy earth-moving machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate