Incident date: 2015-11-04
NAICS industry code: 562111

A sanitation engineer was hooking the cable hooks to the residential dumpster when his right index finger was pinched in the safety hook latch.  This resulted in a crushing injury and the loss of the right index fingertip.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high