While assisting in the performance of maintenance on a Cat 330 excavator, employee struck in the right jaw area of his face with a glancing blow of a 16 pound sledge hammer. He was holding a metal bar, "with the use of a tie line"; the hammer glanced off the bar and still managed to strike him in the right jaw area of his face.
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Douds Stone, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Douds Stone, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was assisting in replacing flashing on a conveyor under the primary crusher. He was cutting the flashing with a utility knife when the knife slipped out of the flashing cutting himself across the stomach area.
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