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Employee was walking down a drill bench when he felt a pulling in his back, employee stated he thought he made it worse when he climbed up the ladder into the drill.
Employee was pulling on the discharge end of a water pump and felt a pull in his lower back.
He was lifting a piece of steel. He place a chain on the plate and on a loader bucket. When he lifted the plate he reached under the plate to move a cross tie; then the chain slipped off the loader bucket. The plate dropped and caught his right thumb and index finger.
AN 18" PIPE WAS BEING CUT ON PIPE STANDS. WHILE TURNING THE PIPE IN PIPE STANDS TO CUT BOTTOM SIDE OF PIPE, THE PIPE FELL ON EE'S RIGHT FOOT. PIPE STANDS ARE FOR 12" PIPE MAX.