Incident date: 2024-04-08
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was dumping a two-yard dumpster into a truck. After dumping into the truck, the latch/lock stuck. The employee was trying to get the latch/lock to release when the trunnion bar pinched their right little fingertip, amputating it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Garbage trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high