Incident date: 2024-08-20
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was retrieving a chipping bit from the drum of a ready-mix truck when he became wedged between the fins of the drum and the loading hopper. The employee sustained fractures to his ribs and vertebrae, as well as scrapes and bruising.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Cement and concrete mixer trucks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate