Incident date: 2021-08-25
NAICS industry code: 453998

Three employees were emptying a full container of trash into an outside dumpster. As they were lifting the container over the edge of the dumpster, it came down and caught one employee's right hand against the dumpster's edge. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated, including the nails.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high