Fractures

Name: Fractures at Maine Drilling and Blasting, Inc.
Start: 10/7/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015107458 · 10/7/2015 · Maine Drilling and Blasting, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Arm(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral

Employer

Name: Maine Drilling and Blasting, Inc.
Location: Mayfield Road, Route 16, BINGHAM, MAINE, 04920
NAICS: 238910
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

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.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown