The breakage or disintegration of suspended entities by energetic fluid motions in stirred tanks is an essential aspect of many operations in the chemical process industries. However, the hydrodynamic inhomogeneity of such tanks makes it extremely difficult to characterize the stresses experienced in any simple manner. This work provides a determination of both the location and the frequency of interaction of spherical fluid-borne entities with the discharge of a Rushton turbine, These data show how both particle size and impeller speed affect the severity of the exposure, setting the groundwork for improved descriptions of the dynamic behaviour of the particle size distribution in a wide variety of dispersed-phase processes.