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October 16, 2018 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
RMR Aggregates, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Injured Employee had driven a cold chisel into a gap on a mill journal to spread the pinch flange to remove a shaft from the journal. While attempting to remove the chisel from the gap it was dislodged and came free unexpectedly and with high force hitting ee in the tibia of right leg at about halfway down from the knee.

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