By using a shovel to remove material build up from inside of the secondary crusher hopper wall, employee's right hand struck the hopper top edge - also pinched ring finger between wall and shovel handle.
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Eastern Materials, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
May 9, 2006
NY · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cranesville Aggregate · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
3 men repairing conveyor belt-one man had a crowbar lifting the pulley up while EE had his hand underneath repairing belt-crowbar slipped causing EE's left thumb to be crushed between bearing and adjuster plate.
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