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Installing liner on D11R, using metal blocks to hold liner in place while welding. Using a 20 lb sledge hammer to remove the block, hammer slipped and hit employee in left lower leg causing contusion.
Employee was installing a track pin and while driving the pin in with a sledge hammer, part of the pin flew off striking employee in the left cheek; metal went through cheek into his left eye, damaging the eye lens and detaching the retina. Employee went to Bowman Gray Medical Center for surgery where the lens was removed;
MECHANIC HAD REMOVED AND DISSAMBELED A 785 TRUCK FRONT BRAKE PACK. AFTER REPAIRS WERE MADE & DURING THE REASSEMBLY PROCESS, A HOIST CHAIN SLIPPED ALLOWING THE TOP SECTION OF THE BRAKE PACK TO DROP & SMASH EE'S FINGER BETWEEN TOP HALF AND MIDDLE SECTION.