While placing a large glass panel into the dumpster, it slipped from his hand hitting the dumpster and breaking. A piece of glass sliced the arm an inch above the wrist on the underside of the arm.
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Showing all 6Area not used in Plant B. EE climbed onto the cat walk circumventing the blocked off stairway. EE of his own acord decided to clean the 3/8 flat converyor cat walk in this blocked off area. He stepped onto an area with no grating. While falling he grabbed the safety railing on the cat walk, pulling the muscles in his left shoulder.
PRIMARY CRUSHER CHUTE PLUGGED UP. RAN DOWNSTAIRS TO UNPLUG. IT WAS AN EMERGENCY SINCE NEW TRUCKS HOLD MORE STONE THAN CRUSHER CAN HANDLE. WHILE UNPLUGGING A ROCK FLEW INTO RIGHT EYE. BLOOD SPO T WAS IN EYE. WENT TO EYE DOCTOR TO GET CHECKED ON.
HAND HIT TUNNEL BELT AND INJURED TENDONS.
CLEANING CRUSHER FROM UNDERNEATH, A STONE FELL &HIT HIS EYE CAUSING A SLIGHT CUT TO HIS CORNEA. A STONE CHIP WAS ALSO REMOVED FROM HIS EYE.
WHILE LIFTING A CYLINDER HEAD ONTO A TRUCK ENGINE EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN/GROIN AREA