# Fractures at Maine Drilling and Blasting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015107458` · 10/7/2015 · BINGHAM, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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