Incident date: 2020-12-04
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee was using a hopper to throw trash in an outside dumpster. The employee moved a lever on the trash hopper and the hopper fell back onto his left hand and amputated his index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high