Incident date: 2015-11-05
NAICS industry code: 238310

Employees were emptying a trash buggy into a dumpster. While picking up the buggy, an employee's right ring finger got caught between the edge of the dumpster and the buggy resulting in the loss of soft tissue requiring surgery and graft.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate