EE picked up a piece of scrap metal and threw it into the scrap metal bin and it cut EE's hand.
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Showing all 5Moving an air compressor and the air compressor was dropped in the process.
He was picking up a metal plate that had came loose off of the jaw crusher, while picking up the plate he pulled some muscles in his back. He thought as time went by the muscles would get better but they just got worse.
While he was cleaning out material buildup on a chute, which is suspended by chains and one of the chains broke causing him to fall against the conveyor railing frame and he bruised his left knee.
Carried a heavy roll of vapor barrier from pickup to office, was squatting to set roll down on the floor and dropped roll on floor. Next day was experiencing some pain in groin area. Two days later was not able to walk very easily.