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SUBJECT WAS RECEIVING WOOD BLOCKING FROM FELLOW WORKER WHO WAS HANDING THEM DOWN TO HIM, FROM A TRUCK. FELLOW WORKERS HANDS SLIPPED OFF OF BLOCKING & FELL SMASHHING SUBJECTS LEFT THUMB AGAINST SIDE OF MACHINE.
SUBJECT WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A SWIVEL ON HYDRFAULIC JACK CYLINDER LINE & HE THOUGHT HIS HELPER HAD CONTGROL OF IT BUT WHEN HE TOOK HIS BOLT OUT IT FELL PINCHING HIS THUMB AGAINST PLATE
MINE AREA WAS V9RY MUDDY DUE TO WEATHER-SUBJECT WAS STANDING ON AN AUGER FLYTE WHEN ONE OF THE LOWER ONES MOVED AND HE FELL BETWEEN THEM AND HIS LEFT LEG WAS SQUEEZED JUST ABOVE THE KNEE BETWE EN TWO AUGER FL2TES. THESE WERESSTORED ALONG HAUL ROAD & WERE BEING MOVED INTO THE PIT
HE SAID HE HELP9D TO PUT ON HOIST CABLE ON. HE MUST HAVE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK BECUASE IT WAS SORE.
SUBJECT LEFTED 7HE END OF A RAILROAD TIE INTO THE BUCKET OF THE HILIFT AND SOMETHING PULLED IN HIS BACK
SUBJECT TWISTED HIS KNEE & KNEE STARTED TO SWELL UP SO HE WENT TO SEE A DOCTOR.
SUBJECT TOLD HIS FOREMAN THAT HE RAISED UP WHILE WORKING UNDER THE MACHINE AND STRUCK HIS HEAD AND JAMMED HIS NECK.