Incident date: 2019-04-08
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was offloading a 55-gallon steel trash can drum into a larger 30-yard roll-off trash container. He was rolling the drum inside the container, on its edge, when it shifted quickly and pinched his right thumb against the container, causing a deep laceration. He was hospitalized for surgery to repair a tendon and nerve in the tip of his thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate