Employee was welding on the jaw crusher. He stopped welding and lifted his hood to remove some slag and a hot metal piece hit him in the corner of the eye. The employee returned to the job after being checked out by a doctor that same day.
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Showing all 3Employee was bent over working to change a roll on a conveyor for about 2 minutes. When he stood up he experienced muscle spasms.
The employee was lifting a piece of steel out of a steel rack with another employee. He needed to pick his end of the steel up a little to get over a lip at the end of the steel rack and when he did he felt pain in his left arm.