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EE STATES HE WAS HAMMEIRNG ON A TIE ROD USING A HAMMER AND PIN EXTENSION. HE MISSED WHILE HAMMERING AND CONSEQYUENTLY HIS RIGHT FINGER STRUCK THE PIN.
EE WAS INSTALLING A GUARD ONT HE TAIL PULLEY WHEN HE STRUCK HIS THUMB WITH A HAMMER.
EE STATED HE WAS HITTING SEGMENTS OF DOZER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FROM THE SEGMENT BROKE OOF AND WENT INTO HIS LEG
EMPLOYEE STATES HE INJURED HIS FINGER WHEN THE WRENCH HE WAS USING TO HOLD BOLTS FROM SPINNING SPUN AROUND AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE MOUNTING BRACKET OF THE SEAT.
EE STATES HE WAS IN A KNEELING POSITION DRIVING A SECTION OF CHANNEL INTO POSITION WITH A HAMMER WHEN THE HAMMER GLANCED OFF THE CHANNEL, STRIKING HIS FINGER AGAINST THE HAMMER HANDLE.
EE STATES HE WAS CUTTING A RUBBER LINER WITH A KNIFE WHEN THE KNIFE WENT THROUGH THE LINER AND CONTACTED THE EE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE SLIPPED OFF OF A PIPE WRENCH AND STRUCK HIS FOOT ON THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE STATES HOOK CAME LOOSE FROM ROPE AND HOIST SCREEN FLIPPED OVER ON HIS LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS REMOVING BROKEN BOLTS FROM MOTOR BASE & A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATERIAL WENT AROUND HIS GLASSES & INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS TAKING OLD BELTS OFF DRIVE PULLEY WHEN THE SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED CAUSING HIS FINGER TO BE PINCHED BETWEEN BELT & PULLEY.
EE STATES HE WAS CUTTING RUBBER SKIRTING WHEN THE RAZOR KNIFE SLIPPED ANC CUT THE BOTTOM SIDE OF HIS LEFT WRIST.
EE STATES HE WAS TAPPING ON A LOCK PIN WHEN FOREIGN MATERIAL WAS PROJECTED FROM THE HAMMER PIN AREA AND BECAME EMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS CUTTING A DRIVE BELT IN TWO WHEN HE CUT HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE KNIFE, REQUIRING STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS UNCHOKING THE FEED BOX WHEN HIS RIGHT RIB HIT THE TOP OF THE FEED BOX.
CLEANING OUT CHUTE PC STUCK AT TOP OF CHUTE FELL STRUCK L FINGER
HE WAS HAMMERING A PIN OF THE SHANK GUARD ON THE LOADER BUCKET WHEN A PIECE OF STEEL CHIPPED OFF THE PIN & EMBEDDED INTO HIS ARM
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND PUSHING PLATE WITH LEFT HAND & HITTIANG IT WITH A 12LB SLEDGE HAMMER IN RT HAND I NAME WAS HOLDING HAMMER ABOUT 6IN FROM HEAD OF HAMMER WHE HE WEN T TO STRIKE THE PLAT E & HIT HIS ARM W/HANDLE CAUSING HAMMER TO BECOME UNBALANCED & HITTING HIS LEFT HAND
DRILL HELPER WAS TIGHTENING CLAMPS ON CABLE ON DRILL WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLE IN SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS SITTING ON TOP OF THE FEED DISTRIBUTOR OF THE OMNI CONE CRUSHER POSITIONED IN SIDE THE FEED CHUTE HE WAS POSITIONING STEEL INSIDE THE CHUTE WITH A CHAIN-JACK & C CLAMP C HAIN JACK SLIPPED CAUSING C CLAMP TO SPRING FREE& STRIKE THE INJURED IN THE FACE
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING IN THE BACK OF THE SHOP VAN FGETTING A HOSE HE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF HOSE WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED & SLICED THE TIP OF HIS LEFT THUMB STITCHES WERE REQUIRED
EE STATES HE WAS STANDING ON GRIZZLY, PULLING PLATE DOWN IN MILL WITH CHAIN JACK. THE END OF THE PLATE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE GRIZZLY BAR. WHEN THE PLATE WAS LIFTED UP WITH CHAIN HOIST, THE PL ATE SWUNG AROUND, STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS POSITIONING A STRAIGHT AND BEGAN CUTTING THE COVER ON THE CONVEYOT BELT.EMPLOYEES INDEX FINGER OF THIS LEFT HAND WAS OVERHANGING THE STRAIGHT EDGE AND HE SLICED THE TIP WITH THE KNIFE.
EMPLOYEE STATESD HE WAS STANDING IN UPRTIGHT POSTION USING THE HANDLE END OF A HOE TO FREE BLOCKAGE FROM STEEL GRATES IN HEAD BOX OF MAIN CONVYOE AT PUGMILL PLANT. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO STRIKE BLOCKAGE, HE LOST HIS BALNCE AND STRUCK BACK PORPORTION OF HIS LEFT EAR WITH THE HOE BLADE. CASUING A LACERATION TO THE EAR.
EMPL WAS STANDING AT SIDE OF CONE CRUSHER SWINING SLEDGE HAMMER AT WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLTS. AS EMPL WAS SWINGING HAMMER IT GLANCED OFF WRENCH STRIKING RIGHT INDEX FINGER. DUE TO CLOSE QUARTERS EMPL MOVEMENT WAS RESTRICTED.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING THE GEAR BOX APART AND HAD TO REMOVE THE BEARING BY HITTING IT. WHEN HE HIT THE BEARING A PIECE STRUCK HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS TIGHTENING THE CLAMP BOLT BECAUSE OF A LEAK AT THE BOOSTER PUMP WHEN THE STAINLESS STEEL BOLT SNAPPED, CAUSING A SUDDEN RELEASE OF PRESSURE ON THE RATCHET HE WAS USING. AS A RESULT, HIS BODY LUNGED FORWARD ABRUPTLY AND HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS INJURED WHILE HE WAS SITTING ON TOP OF THE BELT WHILE CUTTING IT WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT THE INSOIDE OF HIS LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING NEAR CONVEYOR RACHETING CHAIN JACK LIFTING COUNTERWEIGHT TO RELIEVE TENSION SO REPAIRS COULD BE MADE TO CONVEYOR BELT.CHAIN HOOK ON JACK POSITIONED ON CROSS BRA CE OF CONVEYOR DIRECTLY ABOVE COUNTERWEIGHT.HOOK SLIPPED BECAUSE OF DEGREE OF ANGLE OF BRACE CAUSING JACK TO BECOME DISENGAGED AND FALL.BLOW CAUSED HARD HAT TO BE DISLODGED FROM HEAD AND PART
EE STATES INSTALLING TIRE CHAINS ON 988 LOADER. DRIVING THE PIN IN TO HOLD CHAIN LINK TOGETHER. CUT LEFT FOREARM JUST ABOVE THE WRIST, WHEN A SLIVER OF THE PIN BROKE OFF AND EMBEDDED INTO HIS FOREARM.
EE WAS LEANING OVER BUCKET STRIKING SIDEWAYS WITH 4 LB HAMMER. STRUCK HAND WITH HAMMER.
EE STATES SIDE HOLD DOWN PLATES HAD TO BE REMOVED AND A 5 INCH CARRIAGE BOLT WAS WEDGED THRU A 4 INCH PLATE AND A DOUGHNUT WASHER, SO I HELD THE PLATE AND THE DOUGHNUT WITH MY LEFT HAND SO THE Y WOULDNT FALL AND PROCEEDED TO HIT THE BOLT OUTWITH A HAMMER AND HIT THE INDEX FINGER CAUSING FRACTURE.
HE HAD JUST COMPLETED JACKING THE PIPE INTO THE SEDIRED POSITION AND LEFT THE CHAIN JACK IN THE UP POSITION. WITHOUT WARNING. THE JACK BEGAN TO RATCHET IN THE REVERSE DIRECTION RAPID STRUCK HI S HEAD ON ITS NEXT DOWNWARD STROKE.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS USING A LONG BAR TO REMOVE A LARGE ROCK, WHEN HE JAMMED THE ROCK AND HIT FINGER STRUCK THE SKIRT EDGE, THAT'S ALONG THE BELT. HE WAS STANDING ALONG SIDE THE BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING A LARGE ROCK FROM THE CRUSHER JAW WHICH CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPL STATES HE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A COVER FRAME OF A DUMP TRUCK THE WRENCH SLIPPED OF THE NUT AND THIS CAUSED HIS FINGER TO BECOME WEDGED BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND RIB OF THE TRUCK BODY
EMPLOYEE WAS SCRAPING PAINT OFF OF A CRUSHER SHOOT, WHEN A CHIP OF PAINT FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPL WASS REMOVING CHEAT PLATE FROM JAW OF STONE CRUSHER. WHILE STRIKING PLATE TO LOOSEN IT WITH HANMER SPUR BROKE OFF & ENMBEDDED IN UPPER LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS ROTATING CRUSHER BOWL WITH HYDRAULIC RAMS. HE WAS HOLDING THE RAM HEAD IN HIS LEFT HAND DIRECTING THE RAM UPWARD TO CONTRACT THE ADJUSTING LUGS ON THE BOWL. WHEN THE INS TRUCTION WAS GIVEN TO RETRACT THE CYLINDER, THE INJURED HAD HIS LEFT FINGER BETWEEN THE RAM HEAD AND CYLINDER BARREL AND AS A RESULT, HE LACERATED HIS FINGER.
EMPL WAS HOLDING LINK IN CHAIN WHEN C HAIN TURNED & EMPL HIT LEFT THUMB WITH HAMMER.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE USING A SLEDGE HAMMER, THE HAMMER STRUCK A BRAKER SLEEVE AND BOUNCED, STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS RIGHT HAND INTO THE STEEL, CUTTING HIS RIGHT FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS HOLDING A STICK OF DYNAMITE IN HIS LEFT HAND AND WAS HOLDING A PUNCH IN HIS RIGHT WHEN HE WENT TO PUNCH A HOLE IN IT IT WENT OUT THE SIDE AND INTO HIS FINGER
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS JACKING THE CHAIN HOIST TRYING TO PULL THE MOTOR AND SPEED REDUCER BACK INTO PLACE HE THOUGHT HE HAD PULLED THE HANDLE ON THE HOIST INTO PLACE WHEN HE WENT TO RELEASE HA NDLE OF THE HOIST THE PRESSURE ON THE HOIST JERKED HIS LEFT ARM CAUSING A PULLED MUSCLE TO HIS LEFT ELBOW
HE WAS STANDING ON THE FLOOR OF THE SHOP USING A PINCH BAR, PRYING MIXER DRUM APART AT GEAR BOX. BAR WAS PLACED BETWEEN A VERTICAL WATERLINE AND DRUM. THE PRESSURE HE PLACED ON THE PINCH BAR C AUSED THE BAR TO SLIP, THUS HE STRUCK HIS HAND ON THE FENDER EDGE OF THE MIXER, CUTTING FINGER. LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
INJ WAS STANDIN1 AT A WORK BENCH IN THE EQUIPMENT SHOP HOLDING A PLASTIC CONTAINER IN HIS LEFT HAND. WHILE USING A RAZOR KNIFE TO CUT THE CONTAINER HIS HAND SLIPPED, CAUSING A LACERATION TO TH E INDEX FINGER 2N HIS LEFT HAND, 6 STITCHES
THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES WHILE REMOVING KEY FROM SHEAVE WITH THE USE OF WEDGES AND SLEDGE HAMMER, A PIECE OF STEEL FROM WEDGE FLEW OFF AND STRUCK HIM IN THE CHEST.
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A BAR TO PROP UP THE LINER TO PUT BACK ON THE HOPPER. THE PRY-BAR SLIPPED, CUTTING LEFT LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND.