Incident date: 2015-10-07
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was mixing grout in a cement mixer. The machine was turned off. The employee reached into the mixer tub with his left hand to clean the grout off the mixer paddles and his right shoulder accidently struck the mixer's start lever. His left arm was caught in the machine and broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate