Incident date: 2017-01-10
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was inside the sand hopper breaking up the frozen sand in preparation for concrete manufacturing. His legs were caught in the two hopper blades when it closed causing injury that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate