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VICTIM WAS PICKING GOB FROM A PORTABLE CRUSHER CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BACK WHEN THROWING A PIECE OF 60B FROM THE BELT
WHEN ADDING A 5 GALLON CAN OF OIL TO DOZER ENGINE, EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK AFTER STRAIGHTENING HIS BACK UPON COMPLETION OF POURING CAN CONTENTS.
ACCIDENT VICTIM3WAS CHECKING FLUID LEVELS OF ENGINE AND DIFFRENTAIAL WITH ENGINE IDLING AND MACHINE PARKED. VICTIM WAS STANDING ON DOZER PADS AND REACHED THRU CAB DOORWAY TO SHUT OFF ENGINE W HEN VICTIM WAS 8TRUCK WITH PAIN IN LOWER BACK. NO SLIP OR FALL TOOK PLACE.
ACCIDENT VICTIM3WAS CARRYING A SOLVENT BUCKET THRU NARROW ISLE OF DRAGLINE, WHEN VICTIM STUMBLED AND STUBBED HIS RIGHT FOOT INTO A RISER OF A SET OF STEPS. VICTIM WAS NOT WEARING STEEL TOED SH ES AND LARGE TO9 ON RIGHT FOOT WAS FRACTURED.
VICTIM WAS DRIV3NG TRUCK & STOPPED WHEN HE OBSERVED SOMETHING GETTING HOT. ENGINE WATER TEMP WAS ONLY 180 DEGREES BUT RADIATOR OVERFLOW WAS EMITTING WATER. VICTIM RELEASED PRESSURE ON RAD CAP & WAITED. HE T2EN PROCEEDED TO LOOSEN CAP WHEN HOT STEAM BLEW CAP OFF & HOT STEAM SCALDED HIS FACE RESULTING IN 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
OPERATOR HAD SHUTT OFF CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE NOTICED A PIECE OF ROCK CAUGHT BETWEEN THEUNDER SIDE OF CONVEYOR BELT AND STEEL FRAME. CONVEYOR BELT WAS STILL COASTING WHEN OPERATOR ATTMEPTED TO PULL OUT LODGED ROCK, CAUSING HAND TO BE PULLED BY THE BELT TO A PINCH POINT WHERE HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS LACERATED.