Incident date: 2021-09-02
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was trying to push trash off the sill of a hopper. The cart tipper was activated, and as it rose it pinched the employee's left hand against the sill. The employee's little fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high