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Employee had improper body posture while shoveling under a conveyor.
Employee was entering the skid steer, and had used both hands to open the latch when thumbs overextended, employee went to the supervisor. Employee was sent to be seen by a DR. then was released with no restrictions and ok to return to work.
While opening Rail car gate the bar had slipped out of the cap stand and employee's thumb was between the bar and the ground.
EE was exiting the loader while hand was caught between the steps on the ladder, no pain or need to go to doctor, as weeks passed employee began to experience pain in wrist. EE was medically treated on 10-2-17 and released to go to work with restrictions.
3 employees were involved, they were replacing the cutting edge on the loader. they had lower the bucket on the cutting edge there were bolts bound up, when they were to free up the edge EE and IE had there ends on the edge of the cutting edge causing to bruise there left hand equipment involved was. 972M Loader