Incident date: 2023-10-03
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employees were cleaning out a grout pump and using buckets of water to flush the pump. The injured employee went to dislodge a rock from inside the pump injection tube when it cycled and the swing tube pinched his hand between it and the injection tube. The employee sustained multiple fractures to the right hand that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Pumps
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate