EMPL WAS BUILDING BRATTICE. HE WAS IN PROCESS OF CAPPING BRATTICE OFF AS HE WAS STRIKING COPBOARDS WITH HAMMER, HAMMER STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB FRACTURING IT.
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Showing all 6EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE CONTACTS ON THE SCOOP WERE STUCK HE SAID THAT HE GOT A CONCRETE BLOCK AND USED IT TO BEAT AGAINST THE PANEL WHEN HE DID THIS HE STRUCK HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RT HAND RESULTING IN A FRACTURE
INJURED REPORTE8LY WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF CURTAIN AND CUT HIS LEFT HAND WITH A BELT KNIFE CUTURE SUTURES WERE ADMINISTERED
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING REMOTE LINE (BELT CONVEYOR) TO INSTALL INTO ANOTHER. WHEN THE BELT KNIFE COMPLETED THE CUT THE KNIFE STRUCK AGAINST THE EMPLOYEES FACE (UNDER RT. EYE).
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 CUTTING DOWN A PIECE OF WING CURTAIN WITH HIS BELT KNIFE.THE KNIFE SLIPPED STRIKING THE VICTIM ON HIS LEFT WRIST.4 SUTURES NEEDED.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN INSTALLING A ROOF BOLTER ROTATION CHUCK, WHEN CHUCK UNIT WAS STRUCK WITH HAMMER, PART OF IT SHATTERED, STRIKING AND INJURING EMPLOYEE OVER LEFT EYE AND FOREHE AD.