Incident date: 2020-02-19
NAICS industry code: 424820

An employee was using a mobile trash tote to take garbage to the dumpster. The employee was propping the mobile tote between the dock and the dumpster when the mobile tote began to slip and caught the employee's left middle finger between the tote and the dumpster. As a result, the employee's left middle finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Plant and industrial vehicle-nonpowered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high