Incident date: 2024-07-25
NAICS industry code: 336413

An employee was emptying a tilt hopper into a dumpster and released the lever dumping the trash into the dumpster. His left hand was resting on the fork and after the trash was emptied, the hopper rolled back and landed on his left little finger just below the nail bed resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high