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Injured party was caring a base for the tooth for the bucket on a track hoe. As he was preparing to put it down it slipped out of his hands and cut the palm of his right hand requiring 4 stitches. Missed no days of work.
Injured party cut eye off of a jack on a 992 loader. The eye off the jack fell and struck another piece of the loader and bounced and landed on the top of his left foot buising it.
Injured party had just rolled a piece of rock off the belt. When he tried to stand up, he felt a pain in his lower back.
Injured party had step off the his equipment was standing in mud. He turned to go pick something up when his left knee stuck in the mud causing him to twist his knee.
Injured party was helping the mechanic hold a brake calibrator when it slipped and caught his right ring finger.
Injured party was helping mechanic put a belly pan on the D-10 dozer and as he got ready to get out from under the dozer his hard hat fell off. As he reached to pick up his hard hat he struck his head against the dozer ripper.
Injured party was climbing the ladder to get on his back dump truck when he struck his left knee against the ladder.
Inj EE was washing down his service truck when the steam jenny handle busted in his hand. Steam want was a ST-1500. Do not beleive the steam jenny had anything to do with this. The handles are abused and this probably caused the want or handle to bust. EE did not miss any work.
The dozer was down and several mechanics were working trying to get the track off. As the track was coming over the sprocket, one of the bushings got in a bind and a piece of metal popped off the tip of the sprocket, striking injured party under his right eye on his face.
Injured party was trying to pull start a gasoline pump. After the second time he pulled the start cord, it did not catch as it should have, causing the injured party to strike his left hand against a piece of equipment.