Incident date: 2023-10-12
NAICS industry code: 562119

An employee was on the back of a garbage truck holding the inner hopper wall with his left hand when his middle and ring fingers were caught between the truck's packer blade and the inner hopper wall. The employee suffered a finger avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate