Incident date: 2017-11-06
NAICS industry code: 562998

An employee was lifting a toilet into the back of a rear-load trash truck when the top portion of his right ring finger was smashed between the toilet and the rear body of the truck, suffering severe tissue damage. The damaged portion of his finger had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Toilets, urinals
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high