Incident date: 2017-08-09
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was cleaning a concrete mixer with a hose when his right hand was caught between the mixer's paddles and the mixer's drums, fracturing his right middle and index fingers. He was hospitalized. The mixer was unguarded and energized at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate