EMPLOYEE PINCHED HAND BETWEEN TWO PALLETS.
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Showing all 12AS MINER WAS TIGHTENING BELT ON PTO DREDGE HE STATED THAT HE FELT A POP ON HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE FORKLIFT WAS STRAIGHTENING THE PALLET RACKTHE EE'S FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE PALLET FRAME & THE BAGGING TURNTABLE
EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF RIGHT WRIST ACHING AS A RESULT OF TOSSING 80 LB BAGS OF SAND.
EE WAS CLEANING JAM, WHERE SAND HAD ACCUMLATED IN BOTTOM OF SILO. WHILE EE HAD HAND IN THE AIR GATE, EE 2 GOT A HI LITE AND TURNED SWITCH TO CLOSE THE AIR GATE, NOT KNOWING THAT EE 1 WAS CLEAN ING JAM.
EE MASHED FINGER. DOES NOT RMEMBER WHEN. UPON LACK OF TREATMENT & CARE TO FINGER IT SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME INFECTED AND HAD TO BECOME AMPUTATED EE DID NOT TELL ANYONE OF INJURY UNTIL FINGER WAS AMPUTATED EE INSISTED HE HAD HANDLED IT
OPERATOR HAD CLIMBED BETWEEN MAST AND ROPS CANOPY AND ACCIDENTLY HIT TILT LEVER WITH FOOT. SUBSEQUENTLY CRUSHING OPERATOR BETWEEN MAST AND ROPS CANOPY.
WORKER WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A FUSE FROM ELECTRIAL PANEL. THE FUSE PANEL CAUSED AN ARE AND BURNED THE EE.
WORKER WAS REACHING INTO A PIECE OF 8IN PIPE TO CLEAN DIRT & DEBRIS FROM PIPELINE HE SHOVED HIS HAND INTO THE END OF THE PIPE WHICH CONTAINED A SHARP EDGE CUTTING 2 OF HIS FINGERS ON THE KNUCK LE
WORKERS WERE ATTEMPTING TO LOWER EE INTO A SAND STORAGE TANK W/O PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. EE WANTED TO RETRIEVE HIS HAT. WORKERS WERE ACTING ON THEIR OWN JUDGEMENT. NO SUPERVISOR WAS INFORMED OF INTENDED ACTIONS. WORKERS NEGLECTED TO USE SAFETY HARNESS OR LIFELINE.
EE WAS CLIMBING ONTO FORKLIFT AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE OVERHEAD PROTECTION CANOPY.
LOADING SAND BAGS ONTO PALLETS TEMPERATURE WAS 98 DEG.