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EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CHANGING OUT IMPELLER ON A MATRIX PUMP, HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN IMPELLER AND SHELF OF MACHINE, CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EMPL WAS USING 6# HAMMER TO DRIVE DRESSER COUPLING ON 16" PIPE & FELT PAIN IN SHOULDER.
EMPL AND ANOTHER EMPL REPAIRING BUCKET RIGGING OF DRAGLINE,REPLACING HOOD ANCHOR PIN.OTHER EMPL DRIVING PIN WITH 20 LB SLEDGE HAMMER AND I.NAME STANDING 10'BACK AND TO THE LEFT,PIECE OF HEAD P ORTION OF PIN SPLINTERED & STRUCK LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISASSEMBLING A REUSE PUMP WHILE HE WAS HOOKING 2-PART ON SUCTION TEE OF PUMP THE HOOK AND BLOCK FELL SUDDENLY SMASHING INTO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
I NAME WAS REPAIRING A PIT PUMP SUCTION PIPE WINCH. IN THE PROCESS OF LOWERING THE SUCTION PIPE DOWN WITH A COME ALONG THE COME ALONG SUDDENLY RELEASED ALLOWING THE CHAIN AND SUCTION PIPE TO D ROP ABOUT 3 FT WHEN THE SUCTION PIPE CAME TO A STOP IT JARRED THE PIT PUMP FRAME CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS RIB CAGE AGAINST THE BRACE PIPE.
EMPL STATES THAT HE WAS HAMMERING NEW SCREEN PANEL INTO PLACE & STRUCK LEFT LITTLE FINGER WITH HAMMER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO PULL SPILLWAY BOARD WITH TOOL PROVIDED THE TOOL SLIPPED CAUSING FINGER TO PINCH BETWEEN TOOL HANDLE AND ANGLE IRON BRACE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING SURVEY LINE THROUGH SCRUB OAKS, MACHETE GLANCED OFF TREE LIMB AND STRUCK UPPER RIGHT KNEE ABOVE KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS WRENCHING A BOLT OUT WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND JAMMER HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE WRENCH, THE TIP OF HIS LEFT FINGER WAS MASHED.
DURING A VERY W3NDY DAY THE EE HAD PERFORMED SERVERAL TASKS SUCH AS WELDING, CUTTING, BURNING & USING A CHIPPING HAMMER. HE NOTICED AN IRRITATION TO HIS EYE THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE REPORTED TO THE NURSE W5S SENT TO THE PHYSICIAN WHO REMOVED AM EMBEDDED FOREIGN BODY FROM HIS EYE.
EE WAS CHANGING3RETURN ROLLERS ON THE BELT. THEY WERE USING A COME-ALONG TO LIFT & SUPPORT THE BELT OFF THE ROLLER BEING CHANGED. THE COME-ALONG HOOK WAS HOOKED ONT HE CHANNEL IRON THAT IS ABOUT 1 1/4" WI8E. THE ROLLER HAD TO BE FORCED INTO THE BRACKET BY MEANS OF A HAMMER. AFTER STRIKING THE ROLLER THE HOOK SLIPPED OFF CHANNEL STRIKING HIM.
EMPLOYEEWAS DIG1ING OUT AROUND LEAKING PVC PIPE TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF LEAK IN DISCHARGE LINE OF DENVER DITCH DUMP NEAR PREP EFFLUENT POND.WHILE STANDING ON WET SOFT GROUND HIS RIGHT FOOT SANK ABOVE KNEE HIGH3BOOT ALLOWING MUD TO RUN INTO BOOT.SLAKED LIME WAS PRESENT IN GROUND AND SECOND DEGREE BURN OCCURRED TO RIGHT CALF OF LEG.
EMP AND TWO OT2ER WRENCHERS WERE LIFING A LARGE CABLE SNATCH BLOCK TO INSERT THE HOOK OF THE BLOCK INTO A HOLE IN 20 IN PIPE THE SNATCH BLOCK MOVED UNEXPECTEDLY DURING THE LIFT CATCHING THE RIGHT LITTLE FI3GER BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND THE PIPE
EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING HAMMER ON CHAIN-OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING PIN IN FROM OTHER SIDE,HE HIT THE CHAIN CAUSING HAMMER TO HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH.
THE EMPLOYEE USED A KNIFE TO CUT SOME 1/4 INCH NYLON ROPE HOLDING UP SOME GRATING. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND ENTERED HIS ARM REQUIRING SIX STITCHES TO CLOSE.
INSTALLING ELEVATOR FLIGHTS ON CATERPILLAR 633D SCRAPER MECHANICS HAD REMOVED THE CHAIN THAT WAS HOOKED TO HYDROCRANE TRUCK AND SUPPORTING FLIGHT HOLT USED A SPUD BAR TO ALIGN BOT HOLES IN FL FLIGHT AND CHAIN THE BAR SLIPPED OUT OF CHAIN ALLOWING FLIGHT TO FALL AND HIT HOLTS LEFT FOOT