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PERSON HAD STAR7ED THE BAGGING MACHINE AND TURNED QUICKLY TO START THE SCALE BELT.SHE HIT THE BACK OF HER HAND ON THE CONTROL BOX AND RUPTURED THE TENDON IN THE BACK OF THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HER LEFT HAND.3
WHILE PULLING A3WHEEL MOUNTED STEP LADDER, IT BECAME STUCK IN A NARROW PASSAGE. THE EMPLOYEE PULLED AND TWISTED THE LADDER AT THE SAME TIME. THE ACTION OF PULLING AND ATTEMPTING TO TURN THE LA DDER RESULTED I3 A BACK INJURY. THE EMPLOYEE FINISHED THE SHIFT. THE NEXT DAY SORENESS DEVELOPED AND THE EMPLOYEE S SUPERVIOSR TRANSPORTED HIM TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
A CRAWLER TRACT2R WAS STUCK IN MUD TWO OPERATORS WERE GETTING SOME TIMBER TO PUT UNDER THE TRACKS OPERATOR WAS ON THE UPPER END OF A SMALL LOG & WHEN THE MAN ON THE LOWER END PICKED HIS END UP IT CAUSED AN OV9R REACHING STRAIN
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A TANK USED TO REDISSOVLE SODA ASH DUST. WHILE CLEANING THE TANK A PIECE AGGLOMERATED SODA ASH DUST FELL INTO THE HOT LIQUID IN THE TANK. SOME OF THE HOT LIQUID SPLASHED FROM THE TANK STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE CHEST, BOTH ARMS, AND THIGHS OF BOTH LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING A BUNDLE OF CABLES WHICH WAS TIE-WRAPPED TO A 3/8" WIRE ROPE IN ORDER TO GUIDE THE WRAPS THROUGH A HOLE IN A PLATFORM COVERING THE SHAFT WHILE TRYING TO MANEUVER THE CABL E THROUGH THE HOLE, HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE CABLE AND THE THROAT OF THE SHEAVE.
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING A 17.5X2K TIRE FROM THE FORKS OF #5 TRACTOR TO WHEEL HUB OF 913 SCOOP TRAM AT THE 800 FT E #3 PANEL THEY WERE WORKING TIRE BACK AND FORTH ALONG FORKS WHEN I NAME GOT MIDDLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND PPINCHED BETWEEN THE TIRE AND FORK BRACKET ON THE TRACTOR
REEL WIND CHAIN HAD BROKE ON #38 SC.I.NAME OPENED LID COVER WITH RIGHT HAND.HE COULDNT SEE INTO REEL COMPARTMENT.MOVED FORWARD TOWARDS THE CAR.AS HE DID LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND I.NAME GRABBED FO R CAR WITH LEFT HAND THE LID COVER CAME OUT OF RIGHT HAND AND FELL BACK INTO CLOSED POSITION AND CUT TIP OF INDEX FINGER.
BIRD CENTRIDUGE DISCHARGE CHUTE WAS PLUGGED. IN NAME WAS WASHING OUT THE OVERFLOW TROUGH, WHEN HOT SLURRY AND WATER SPALSHED OUT HITTING HIM ON RIGHT ARM AND RIGHT SIDE OF STOMACH. HE TURNED AND RAN OUT AND STRUCK HEAD ON A STEEL BEAM CUTTING HIS FOREHEAD.
EMP HAD PULLED THE HOOK OFF OF AN OVERHEAD HOIST OVER THE HANDRAIL IN PREPARATION TO LIFT THE DISCHARGE LID OF ML-1. THE HOOK SLIPPED FROM HIS GRIP AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GRAB THE HOOK HIS FI NGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN IT AND THE HANDRAILS
EMP WAS REMOVING ORE FROM THE BED OF A SHUTTLE CR SO AS TO ALLOW REPAIR OF THE CONVEYOR CHAIN, WHEN A PIECE OF ORE SHIFTED SMASHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE SIDE OF THE VEHICLE
PLACING 8\\ X 6\\ X 16\\ BLOCK ON BACK OF PILASTER FELT SHARP PAIN IN BACK AND FELL TO KNEES.STOPPING WAS 18\HIGH AND EMPL WASS BENT OVER AND OVEREXTENDED 18\\ TO PLACE BLOCK.
EMPLOYEE REMOVED PLASTIC PROTECTION FROM SWEDISH WOOL EAR PLUG PRIOR TO INSERTING IT INTO HIS EAR. UPON ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE ITA, A FRAGMENT OF THE MATERIAL REMAINED IN HIS EAR.
APPLYING PUTTY TO A WALL PRIOR TO PAINTING.REACHED BEHIND FOR MORE PUTTY WHERE SHE WAS SITTING,LOST BALANCE.STRUCK HAND ON DUSTPAN LAYING ON FLOOR CAUSING LACERATION TO PALM TO HAND.