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EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO JACK THE CHUTE AT THE ELJAY PLANT BACK INTO POSITION SO HE COULD WELD IT. EMPLOYEE SET THE HYDRAULIC JACK ONTO THE DECK, BEHIND THE TOE BOARD, BENT OVER TO GET THE PORTA POWER AND WHEN HE TURNED BACK AROUND THE JACK FELL HITTING HIM ON THE FOREHEAD.
THREE MEPLOYEE'S WERE PERFORMING MAINTENANC EON JAW CRUSHER. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH TWO OTHER PRYING THE ROCK BOX TO LINE UP BOLT HOLES WITH THE SUPPORTING FRAME. INJURED EMPLOYEE PLACE DHIS RIGHT HAND BEHIND THE ROCK BOX AND SHOOK IT CAUSING THE ROCK BOX TO MOVE FORARD AND PINCH HIS HAND AGAINST THE FEEDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING TO UNSTOP THE JAW CRUSHER.EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE FEEDER BOX REMOVING ROCKS BY HAND.A LARGE ROCK ROLLED INTO THE FEEDER BOX FOM THE TOP SIDE OF THE FEEDER BOX STRIKLIN G EMPLOYEES RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING OLD BOARDS IN BED OF A DUMP TRUCK & THROWING THEM OUT OF THE TRUCK EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A BOARD & TOSSED IT BUT THE BOARD SPLIT & HALF OF THE BOARD FELL BACK & STRUCK EMPLO YEE IN THE LEFT EYE
INJURED EMPLOYEE AND FOREMAN WERE INSTALLING A PULLEY ON A MOTOR SHAFT THE PULLEY WAS NOT ALIGNED CORRECTLY BSO THEY HAD TO REMOVE IT AND REINSTALL WHILE REMOVING THE PULLEY POPPED OFF MASHIN G THE EMPLOYEES THUMB AGAINST WALL
EMP AND INJ WERE UNLOADING AN OX BOTTLE FORMA PICK UP BED OTHE EMP AHD TOP /OF BOTTLE WHILE INJ HAD BOTTOM. WHEN INJ SAT BOLTTLE ON GROUN D HIS FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BOTTLE AND ROCK.
EMPLOYEE WERE CHANGING SCREENS A THE CRSUHER.INJURED WAS PULLING A SCREEN UP THE STEPS WHILE TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE PUSHING THE SCREEN.AT THE TOP OF THE STEPS THE INJURED EMPLOYEES THUMB GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND THE SCREEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT THE MATERIAL CHUTE UNDER THE SCREENS, WHEN FROZEN MATERIAL FELL FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREENS STRICKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE NECK AND RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEES WERE 3N THE PROCESS OF CHANGING SCREENS AT THE SECONDARY PLANT.INJURED WAS LIFTING A SCREEN UP TOT HE NEXT LEVEL.WHEN EMPLOYEES ON THE UPPER LEVEL PULLED UP ON THE SCREEN IT CAUGHT T HE INJURED'S FI3GER AND CUT IT.
EE WAS REMOVING3USEABLE PIECES OF STEEL FROM A SCRAP PILE & TOSSING THEM INTO ANOTHER PILE. AS EE WAS TOSSING THE STEEL A SHARP BURR PUNCTURED HIS LEFT THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING UP A VERTICAL LADDER TO THE TOP OF THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. WHEN REACHING THE TOP EMPLOYEE STRIGHTENED AND HIS HARD HAT HIT THEANGLE IRON GUARD WHICH ENCLOSES THE PLATFORM. T HE GUARD SWUNG 8OWN AND HIT EMPLOYEES MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. FINGERNAIL WAS LANCED TO RECIEVE PRESSURE UNDERNEATH.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING UNDER CONVEYOR WHEN THE DISCHARGE CHUTE FROM THE PRIMARY SCREENS BECAME BLOCKED EMPLOYEE CLIMBED INTO THE NARROW CHUTE TO DISLODGE THE OBSTRUCTION. EMPLOYEE HAD TO TWIST AND TURN TO GE7 IN AND OUT OF THE CHUTE APPROX. HOUR LATER AT THE QUARRY OFFICE, EMPLOYEE WENT TO STAND UP FROM A SITTING POSITION AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A EMPTY OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE TANK WITH FULL ONES EMPLOYEE WAS AT THE RACK WHICH HOLDS THE CYLINDERS, AND WAS REMOVING A FULL TANK OF OXYGEN AS EMPLOYEE A PULLING THE CYL INDER IT SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS FINGER AGAINST ANOTHER CYLINDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BOB CAT WHEN HE SAW THAT HIS FELLOW EMPLOYEES NEEDED HELP REPATRING CRUSHER. I NAME RAN TO ASSIST AND PROCEEDED TO WRAP A 1 1/4 INCH STEEL CABLE AROUND LOADED BUCKET AS DOING THIS BURR ON THE CABLE CUT HIS HAND FOUR SUTURES WERE USED TO CLOSE LACERATION.