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While replacing pivots in the scales, I was holding pivot in place adn began to hammer. Hand slipped forward and hit it with hammer in turn pushing hand into pivot. Pivot had been coated with antiseize and grease.
Employee was cleaning hardened material from log washer with a digging bar and struck the backside of his hand on angle iron cross supports cutting his hand between the 3rd and 4th fingers of his right hand.
While removing a boom cylinder from a Cat 988B Company #210. The mechanic was driving the top pin out of the cylinder and boom arm. The cylinder caught the drift and pinched his left palm (under pinky finger) against the cylinder eye. He got 8 stitches and a tetanus shot.