Incident date: 2024-11-25
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was straightening up a storage room at a client site. While pushing a cart of decommissioned trash cans, one of the hinged lids on a trash can closed onto their finger and amputated the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Barrels, drums, cans  nonpressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high