# Cuts, lacerations at ACECO, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017109531` · 10/4/2017 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Compactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
## Employer
- **Name:** ACECO, LLC
- **Location:** 80 I St., SE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20003
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clear a jam from a piece of demolition equipment used to recycle and process refuse concrete when his right arm entered the point of operation. His arm tendons and arteries were severed, requiring hospitalization.

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