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SILO GATE WOULD NOT OPEN SO TWO EMPL HOOKED TWO 1 1/2 TON COME ALONGS UP TO TRY TO FREE GATE. HOOK ON LIVE END OF ONE COME ALONG STRAIGHTENED OUT UNDER PRESSURE & HOOK & CHAIN HIT EMPL IN RIG HT LOWER BACK.
CHANGING BUCKET3ON DRAGLINE,A 4 MAN CREW WAS RESOCKETING THE HOIST ROPES AND HAD HOIST ROPE REEVED THROUGH SOCKET AND WERE INSTALLING THREE PIECE ROPE WEDGE IN SOCKET.AS CREW WAS PULLING ROPE THROUGH SOCKET2THE WEDGE TWISTED AND FELL OUT OF SOCKET AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT LOWER INSTEP.
EMP WAS INSTALL3NG RUNNING BOARDS ON VEHICLE AND WAS USING RAZOR KNIFE TO TRIM PLASTIC INNER FENDER THE BLADE BROKE AND THE FORCE BEING APPLIED CARRIED HAND INTO BROKEWN BLADE CAUSING LACERAT ON HAND 3
ATTEMPTING TO J5CK SHAFT OUT OF CROWD DRUM ON SHOVEL, HYD RAM WAS BEING SUPPORTED BY A PIECE OF HEAVY RAIL. END OF RAIL BROKE DUE TO THE PRESSURE FROM RAM AND PIECE OF RAIL STRUCK I.NAME IN RI GHT LEG ABOUT 86 BELOW KNEE
I.NAME WAS PRYI3G TRACK ADJUSTMENT SHIMS OUT SO TRACKS ON SHOVEL COULD BE TIGHTENED WHEN PRYING WITH A BAR BAR SLIPPED & PINCHED RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN BAR & AXLE FRAME ON SHOVEL THI BROKE HIS FINGE9
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING H CHANNEL WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED HE CUT HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING OFF WALL TIES ON THE READY LINE AND ONE OF THE WALL TIES FLEW OFF THE WALL AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A REBAR INTO THE GROUND WITH A HAMMER HE MISSED THE REBAR AND HIT HIS LEG
I WAS CUTTING INNER SEMI CONDUCTOR OFF WIRE WITH KNIFE KNIFE SLIPPED AND I CUT MY LEFT THUMB