INJURED WAS SLITTING SLATE AND TURNED AROUND STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST A STACK OF SLATER LACERATION AND CONTUSION.
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Showing all 11SPLITTING SLATE SLABS INTO ROOFING MATERIAL BLOCKS. A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF THE CHISEL WHEN IT WAS HIT WITH A HAMMER INTO THE LEFT FOREARM. STEEL WAS REMOVED AND 3 SUTURES TAKEN.
EMPLOYE WAS SPLITTING SLATE SLABS INTO ROOFING MATERIAL BLOCKS. A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF THE CHIESEL INTO LEFT LEG.
INJURED WAS TIGHTENING UP LUGS ON TIRE WHEEL ON LOADER. HE WAS PRYING DOWN ON WRENCH TIGHTENING THE LUG NUTS WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE FELL DOWN ON THE GROUND, BREAKING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
ATTEMPTING TO SPLIT OF SLAB OF SLATE, SLAB CAME APART AT JOINT SLATE CUT THUMB ON L HAND
INJURED WAS SPLITTING A SLAB OF SLATE INTO ROOFING SHINGLES. A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF THE HAMMER AND INTO RIGHT CHEEK.
INJURED WAS SPLITTING A SLATE BLOCK-A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF THE HAMMER AND INTO NECK.
INJURED WAS SPLITTING A SLAB OF SLATE WITH HAMMER & CHIESEL A PIECE OF STEEL CAME OFF CHIESEL & ENTERED LEFT FOREARM
INJURED WAS HOL8ING STEEL WEDGE FOR I.NAME TO HIT WITH THE SLEDGE HAMMER. I.NAME MISSED THE WEDGE AND HIT INJURED'S ARM. THIS MOTION CAUSED HIS ARM TO SLAM AGAINST ANOTHER PIECE OF SLATE.
INJURED AND HIS3COWORKER WERE SPLITTING SLATE BLOCKS FOR ROOFING SLATE WHICH ARE THEN PLACED ON A CONVEYOR TWO OTHER FELLOW WORKERS ACROSS THE CONVEYOR WERE DOING THE SAME TYPE JOB WHILE THEY WERE SPLITTING3A SLAB OF SLATE WITH A HAMMER AND CHISEL A PIECE OF SLATE FLEW ACROSS THE TABLE AND ENTERED THE LEFT SHOULDER
WORKING ON TRAC5 OF A NORTHEWEST SHOVEL THERE ARE TWO STEEL PINS IN THIS TRACK ONE PIN WAS OUT AND WAS PRYING OTHER ONE OUT WHEN IT CAME OUT THE TRACK FELL DOWN THE THE BAR SLAMMED AGAINST HI S CHEST 3