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HELPING TO REPAIR CRUSHER. LIFTING TOGGLE PLATE STRAINED BACK
LIFTING AND MOVING A FIFTY POUND BOX OF BLASTING POWDER.
EE WAS CHANGING HAMMERS ON THE CRUSHER, WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FELL ONTO HIS HAND, CAUSING A CUT IN HIS LEFT RING FINGER, THAT REQUIRED TWO STITCHES. HE RETURNED TO WORK THE AFTERNOON OF THE AC CIDENT AND LOST NO TIME OR PAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT BIN WHEN A CHU;NK OF LIME FELL & CAUGHT HIS RIGHT LEG BETWEEN THE METAL ON BIN & THE CHUNK OF LIME.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A PIECE OF STEEL UP UNDER THE HAMMER MILL TO BE WELDED. HE STOOPED OVER AND WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STAND UP WITH METAL HE COULD NOT GET UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING A BELT ROLLER OUT OF THE WAY AND HIS HAND SLIPPED AND AS HE GRABBED FOR THE ROLLER HIS HAND STRUCK A NAIL ON THE GROUND AND IT PUNCTURED A BIG HOLE IN THE PALM OF HIS RT A HAND AND TORE 5 STRIP IN THE FLESH OUT TO THE EDGE OF THE HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING OUT FROM UNDER THE BINS AT THE ROCK CRUSHER WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE BINS AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT THUMB, FRACTURING THE THUMB. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO WORK, BU T HIS THUMB STA9TED SWELLING AND HURTING SO HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM AFER WORK HOURS.
EE WAS LIFTING 5 LARGE TIRE TO PUT ON CRANE & STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING TO PUT IN NEW LINERS IN THE HAMMER MILL & IN LIFTING THE LINERS T O PUT THEM IN PLACE HE STRAINED HIS BACK EMPLOYEE DID NOT THINK AT THE TIME HE WAS HURT VERY BAD & DID NOT REPOR7 THE INJURY UNTIL HE KEPT HAVING TROUBLE WITH HIS BACK HE HAD CONTINUED TO WORK BUT WAS HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN WITH HIS BACK HE REPORT ED THE INJURY TO THE OFFICE ON NOV.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING BOLT BACK IN SIDE PLATE OF JAW CRUSHER. OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE HOLDING THEPLATE WITH A BAR AND THE BAR TURNED LETTING THE PLATE SLIP AND IT CAUGHT THE LEFT THUMB OF THE EMPL OYEE BETWEEN THE PLATE AND THE JAW CRUSHER, BRUISING AND BURSTING THE THUMB. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM OF LOCAL HOSPITAL WHERE THE THUMB WAS TREATED AND DRESSED. HE WAS TOLD NOT TO