Employee was cleaning primary feeder out for repair work when they ran a finger across a sharp metal burr cutting finger that required stitches.
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Showing all 4Employee was working on AC unit for a 988F loader. EE was inside the cab cleaning dust out of the vent when EE cut finger requiring stitches.
Employee was carrying a 4" pipe about 8' long. He went to lay pipe on forks of a lull when he caught finger between pipe and end of fork on lull mashing his finger. He fractured tip of his little finger.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CO-WORKER SET CRUSHER LID BACK ON CRUSHER. WHEN HE WAS POSITIONING THE LID, HE CAUGHT HIS RT. RING FINGER UNDER THE LID CAUSING A FRACTURE & FINGERNAIL REMOVAL WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES.