Incident date: 2017-11-15
NAICS industry code: 562998

An employee was working on a residential route picking up bulk items in a trash rear-load truck when his left middle finger was caught and crushed between a gap in a saw horse. The side of his finger was also cut open from the knuckle to the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Benches, workbenches, saw horses
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate