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METAL WRENCH FELL ON BATTERYSHORTING IT OUT & CAUSING IT TO EXPLODE
MUD & SAND BLEW INTO RT EYE SCRATCHING EYE
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CHECKING A FLOW RECORDER AND WASPS STUNG HIM ON HIS FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A GUY LINE WIRES FROM POWER POLE,HE DROPPED THE GUY WIRE INTO HOT 25 KV HIGH LINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FLOOR GRATING PREPARING TO INSTALL A PUMP DISCHARGE PIPE. A JOINT OF PIPE WITH FLANGE FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S ARM.
EMPLOYEE ENTERED THE DRAGLINE CAB AND TRIED TO CLOSE THE DOOR. IT DID NOT LATCH SO SHE TRIED AGAINS, THIS TIME BRACING HERSELF WITH HER RIGHT HAND ON THE WALL. HER RIGHT THUMB INADVERTENTLY WR APPED AROUND THE DOOR TRIM AND ONTO THE JAMP. SHE PUSHED HARD ON THE DOOR TO GET IT LATCHED AND PINCHED HER RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE JAMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISASSEMBLING A REUSE PUMP WHILE HE WAS HOOKING 2-PART ON SUCTION TEE OF PUMP THE HOOK AND BLOCK FELL SUDDENLY SMASHING INTO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE WALKING DOWN STAIRWAY HER FOOT SLIPPED,SHE CAUGHT HERSELF BY THE HANDRAIL,SHE HAD BEEN HAVING BACK PAIN SINCE THIS ACCIDENT.
WHILE SLIDDING UNDERNEATH TRUCK ON FLOOR CREEPER A BOLD WAS DISLODGED .BOLT FELL AND STRUCK MOUTH CRACKING HIS 2 TEETH.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING SURVEY LINE THROUGH SCRUB OAKS, MACHETE GLANCED OFF TREE LIMB AND STRUCK UPPER RIGHT KNEE ABOVE KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS WRENCHING A BOLT OUT WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND JAMMER HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE WRENCH, THE TIP OF HIS LEFT FINGER WAS MASHED.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE W AS REMOVING A WASTE OIL DRUM FROM BENEATH A PAN WHILE REMOVING THE WASTE OIL DRUM THE SHARP EDGE OF THE DRUM CUT HIS FINGER
EMPL REPOSITION3NG PAILS OF GREASE WO WALKWAY COULD BE ROPED OFF HE LOST HIS FOOTING.SLIPPED AND PUT BODY WEIGHT ON RIGHT HAND FX BONE IN RIGHT ARM.
EE WAS CHANGING3RETURN ROLLERS ON THE BELT. THEY WERE USING A COME-ALONG TO LIFT & SUPPORT THE BELT OFF THE ROLLER BEING CHANGED. THE COME-ALONG HOOK WAS HOOKED ONT HE CHANNEL IRON THAT IS ABOUT 1 1/4" WI8E. THE ROLLER HAD TO BE FORCED INTO THE BRACKET BY MEANS OF A HAMMER. AFTER STRIKING THE ROLLER THE HOOK SLIPPED OFF CHANNEL STRIKING HIM.
INJURED AND I.N5ME WERE INSTALLING THE CONNECTING SHAFT AND PINS BETWEEN THE COUNTERWEIGHTS AT THE DRAGLINE.WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ALIGN THE SHAFT WITH THE HOLES IN THE COUNTERWEIGHTS IN ORDER TO INSTALL THE PIN8, SHE CAUGHT HER LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE CONNECTING SHAFT AND THE COUNTERWEIGHT.
ROVING UTILITY 2PERATOR & WASTE CONTROL OPERATORWERE BOTH GOING AROUND LAKE ANN WEST IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS WHEN THEY CAME AROUND A BLIND CURVE ERATOR HIT THE STEERING WHEEL WITH HER CHIN
EMP AND TWO OT2ER WRENCHERS WERE LIFING A LARGE CABLE SNATCH BLOCK TO INSERT THE HOOK OF THE BLOCK INTO A HOLE IN 20 IN PIPE THE SNATCH BLOCK MOVED UNEXPECTEDLY DURING THE LIFT CATCHING THE RIGHT LITTLE FI3GER BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND THE PIPE
EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING HAMMER ON CHAIN-OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING PIN IN FROM OTHER SIDE,HE HIT THE CHAIN CAUSING HAMMER TO HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH.
THE EMPLOYEE S FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT BETWEEN THE 4160 V POWER CABLE HE WAS LIFTING AND THE PIT CARSTEPS WHEN HIS FELLOW EMPOYEE DROPPED HIS END OF THE CABLE.
AS THE EMPLOYEE GATHERED HIS TOOLS FROM THE BED OF THE BUCKET TRUCK THE BUCKET WHICH HAD BEEN SET DOWN ON SOME LOOSE MATERIAL SETTLED AND THE BUCKET DROPPED ON THE EMPLOYEES FOOT BREAKING HIS TOE.
EMP WAS REPLACING STEEL GRATING ON A WALKWAY ON THE SECOND LEVEL OF THE WASHER A PIECE OF GRATING SHIFTED OFF THE COME AL LONG ANDD STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT SHIN CAUSING A LACEWRATION OF LEFT S SHIN