Incident date: 2025-06-13
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee pulled a dump lever on the side of a manual trash-dumping cart. When the lever sprung back, it caught his left ring finger against the outside of the metal cart. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high