Tightening wheel on truck and ratchet slipped hitting employee in the eye causing employee to need 6 stitches.
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Showing all 3Employee got the index finger on the left hand cut when he stuck it in a hole in a coal chute as a co-worker was prying with a 3/4 inch pipe trying to unstop the chute. The pipe caught his finger between the edge of the hole and the pipe. It took 5 suters to close the cut.
Employee was cutting a rubber water hose to hook to a water spray bar and the knife slipped and the blade hit him on the left thumb of his hand.