Incident date: 2023-08-11
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was working on the back of a truck and activated the sweep blade which pulls trash into the body of the truck. The blade stuck and fractured the employee's right leg and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate