Incident date: 2024-05-25
NAICS industry code: 327120

An employee was filling a rocking dumpster with refractory rubble and disposing of it into a bigger dumpster. The rocking dumpster was on the forks of a forklift. His left hand was on the bottom of the dumpster as he went to pour the rubble into a bigger dumpster below. When the rocking dumpster tipped over his left index, middle, and ring fingers were crushed between the dumpster and the forklift forks.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate