A maintenance worker lost control of a small hammer. The hammer slid down the screen deck and bounced off the deck, striking a second employee in the nose, causing a laceration that needed sutures to close.
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Showing all 4Employee was welding on a radiator guard for a D8R when the cribbing block kicked out allowing guard to topple over on employee.
ACCUDENT OCCURR9D AT STANDARD SLAG COMPANY'S CAMBRIA QUARRY(MSHA ID NUMBER 3607394).CONTRACTOR EXPRESSLY INSTRUCTED AND SUBCONTRACTOR AGREED ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 11,1987,THAT THE EXCAVATION FOR THIS PROJE7T WOULD BE BENCHED AS REQUIRED BY 30 C.F.R. SECTION 56.3001 ET. SEQ. NVERTHELESS,SUBCONTRACTING COMPANY OWNER AND EMPLOYEES COMMENCED THE PROJECT AT 7:30 A.M. ON JUNE 12,1987,A
BLOCKING KICKED3OUT AND STRUCK LEFT ARM WHEN INSTALLING DIFFERENTIAL IN PAYLOADER.