# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Heimes Corp.
> OSHA SIR `20191111561` · 11/6/2019 · ELKHORN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Heimes Corp.
- **Location:** 206th and Pacific, ELKHORN, NEBRASKA, 68022
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the bottom of a trench directing the excavator operator by giving him hand signals when the employee's arm was pinned between the excavator bucket and the trench box. The employee suffered possible soft tissue/nerve damage.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*