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EMPLOYEE WAS USING SCALING BAR TO INSTALL 4FTX12FT PLATES & BULKHEAD FOR MAIN SHAFT HELPER STRUCK PLATE TO HELP IT ALONG CAUSING SCALING BAR TO SLIPO & STRIKE EMPLOYEE ON NOSE 2 STITCHES USED TO CLOSED WOUND & REDUCED SCARRING VISIBILITY
MANAGEMENT INFORMED BY EMPLOYEE THAT HE WAS NOT PERFORMIG ANY LIFTING OR PUSHING TYPE OF WORK WHEN BACK INJURY OCCURRED HE HAD JUST PLACED A BAR UNDER AN I BEAM TO SLIDE IT OVER & WAS WAITING FOR HIS COWORKER TO DO THE SAME WHEN THERE WAS PAIN IN HIS BACK
EMPL WAS PULLING CHAIN ON COME-ALONGS & RIGHT THUMB GOT CAUGHT.
EMPW AS HOLDING CUTTER AS A PUNCH WHILE FOREMAN WAS HITTING BIT TO FORCE MASTER LINK APRT HAMMER GLANCE DOFF BIT AND STRUCK L. THUMB CAUSING MINOR CUT.
KNOCKING OUT TRAVEL CURTAINS WITH AN AXE.STRUCK ROOF BOLT AND AX BOUNCED BACK AND STRUCK ON RIGHT EAR LOBE.RECD STITCHES.
EMP WA> WAS HING DIP TUBE CLEAN OU LINE WHEN A PIPE WRENCH SUPS. FELLF ROM STRUCTUR ABOVE AND STRUCK SIDE OF RIGHT FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO RAISE A SIMDEX JACK. THE JACK WOULD NOT DO UP. HE TRIED TO MAKE THE JACK WORK WHEN IT SLIPPED CATCHING HIS THUMB BETWEEN JACK LEG AND RATCHET PART OF JACK.
JACK SLIPPED FROM LEVELING BELT STRIKING INJ IN NOSE.EMPL HAD BEEN LEVELING BELT AND WAS HOOKING CHAIN IN HANGER.JACK SLIPPED OUT HANDLE STRUCK EMPL IN NOSE.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS MAKING A CABLE SPLICE HE STRUCK ANVIL TO CRIMP CONNECTOR WHEN HAMMER HEAD SPLIT A PIECE OF THE HAMMER HEAD STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND INDEX FINGER AND LODGED IN FINGER
EMPL PUTTING COWL BACK ON TAILGATE WHEEL OF SHEARER WHEN RATCHET SLIPPED OFF BOLT HE WAS TIGHTENING AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH.BRTOKEN TOOTH.
EMPLOYEE WAS U8ING A COME ALONG TO MOVE A DRIVE MOTOR WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN I BEAM AND COME ALONG.
EMPL DISMANTLING PUMP.PUT PRY BAR UNDER BARREL ASSY AND PRYED DOWN TO LIFT IT OUT OF CRANE FELT BURNING SENSATION IN HIS BACK.BEECAME REPORTABLE 4-13-88 WHEN HE RECD MUSCLE RELAXERS.
HE WAS WORKING 2N THE BELTLINE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING BELT WITH PIPE PIPE SLIPPED & STRUCK HIM ABOVE THE LEFT EYE
HE WAS SPLICING3CABLE WHEN IT WAS PULLED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS FINGER.
WHILE LYING ON 6ACK UNDER HEADGATE DRIVE MOTOR REPAIRING A HOSE, OTHER WORKERS WERE LIFTING AND BLOCKING FACE CONVEYOR TO DO WORK UNDERNEATH. THE CHAIN BROKE AND PAN WHICH WAS RAISED ABOUT 1" DROPPED JARRING3BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING NUT FROM FLYGHT, WRENCH SLIPPED STRIKING RIGHT LITTLE FINGER CAUSING FRACTURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DI8CONNECTING MOTOR LEADS ON BELTDRIVE,WAS CUTTING INSULATION WITH KNIFE-KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING PALM OF LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING BELT SPINDLE WITH CHISEL AND HAMMER HOLDING CHISEL WITH CHANNEL LOCKS CHISEL SLIPPED STRIKING HIM ON CHIN CAUSING LACERATION
EMPLOYEE WAS TR6NING A 2 INCH WATER VALVE AND SOMETHING POPPED IN HIS WRIST.
REMOVING BOLT S6PPORTING THE JACK PLATE ON TRUCK SCALES. WHEN THE BOLT LOOSENED THE PLATE DROPPED TRAPPING MY FINGER BETWEEN JACK PLATE AND SUPPORT MOUNT.