TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REPAIRING MINE ORE CARS INJURED EMPLOYEES PARTNER HAD WELDED A HOOK ONTO DOOR OF CAR TO LIFT IT WHILE THEY WERE LIFTING THE DOOR WITH THE OVER HEAD CRANE TO PUT ADDITIONAL B LOCKING UNDER IT THE HOOK TORE OFF LETTING DOOR FALL AND PINNING THE PARTNER BETWEEN A BEAM AND THE DOOR INJURED EMPLOYEE LIFTED DOOR ENOUGH AND LET OTHER EMPLOYEE ESCAPE AND IN DOING SO INJU
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Showing all 7EMPL WORKING WITH 2 OTHER EMPL TO OPEN HOOD OF KILN.WHEN THEY SET COAL PIPE ON PLATFORM HE LOOKED UP AND LIME DUST FELL ON HIS FACE GETTING UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO LEFT EYE CAUSING S OME FAIRLY SEVERE BURNS OF THAT EYE.
INJURED EMPLOYEE AND HIS MINING PARTNER WERE LIFTING A FULL BARREL OF OIL UP ON A PEDESTAL AND HE STRINED HIS BACK
BAGGING HYDRATED LIME ON AUTOMATIC BAGGING MACHINE WHEN BAG FLEW APART BLOWING LIME ALL OVER HEAD AND UP UNDER FULL FACE SHIELD HE WAS WEARING.SOME LIME ENTERED LEFT EYE CAUSING LIME BURN TO T HAT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEAING OUT LARGE STONES FROM UNDER CONVEYOR AND PUTTING THEM ON CONVEYOR BELT HE MISJUDGED THE DISTANCE AND HIT HIS HAND ON THE CONVEYOR FRAME WITH THE STONE STILL IN HIS HAND C AUSING ABRASIONS AND FRACTURE OF HIS LEFT THUMB
EE & HIS PARTNER WERE SETTING UP A DRILLING MACHINE & WHEN HE TRIED TO MOVE COLUMN BAR HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EE & HIS MINING PARTNER WERE TEARING DOWN THEIR ROTARY DRILLING MACHINE & EE PICKED UP SOMETHING OFF THE GROUND, AS HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE COLUMN BAR.