# Crushing injuries at Geiger Ready-Mix Co, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109211` · 10/5/2023 · LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Geiger Ready-Mix Co, Inc.
- **Location:** 1333 South 2nd Street, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, 66048
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing cleaning activities on a concrete mixing drum with another employee. As he went to stop the drum from moving by placing a wheel chock, the roller and drum caught his glove and pulled his hand through, crushing it.

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