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EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER USING A CUTTING TORCH TO REMOVE METAL STUDS FROM CONCRETE FLOOR.A PIECE OF HOT METAL OR CONCRETE FLEW UP UNDERNEATH SAFETY GLASSES AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON INSIDE CRONE R OF LEFT EYE.
EMPL HELPING HOIST REDUCER TO TOP OF BLDG.WHEN REDUCER ARRIVED AT THE TOP,EMPL LIFTED REDUCER TO ROOF AND WAS CAUGHT ON FOREARM BY BOLT ON REDUCER CAUSING LACERATION.
EMPL WAS PLACING BALER ON SEMI AUTOMATIC BALER WHEN HE CAUGHT RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN CYLINDER THAT HOLD FILLED BALES &BAG GUIDE MASHING FINGER.
SHE WAS SEWING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT ON LARGE PAK LINE. BAG BECAME ENTANGLED. WHEN SHE UNTANGLED BAG 3/8" STEEL ROD USED TO GUIDE BAG SPRUNG UP & HIT HER ON NOSE. ROD HAD BEEN BENT DOWN UNDER PR ESSURE OF BAG & RELEASED WHEN SHE MOVED BAG. SHESUFFERED BROKEN NOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SEALING BAGS ON THE LARGE PACK LINE WHEN A BAG ENTERED THE SEALER WRONG. IN AN ATTEMPT TO CATCH THE BAG EMPLOYEES RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN THE ENTRY ROLLER OF THE SEALER. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO EMERCANY ROOM WERE THEY TOOK X-RAYS BUT NO FRACTURE WAS FOUND.
HE WAS HELPING TO OPERATE A SEMI-AUTOMATIC BALER AND GOT THE FOURTH FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT AT THE PINCH POINT OF THE BALER CLAMP CYLINDER, CUTTING AND BRUISING HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING BAG HOUSE FOR POSSIBLE BLOCKAGE. THE ROTARY AIR LOCK WAS TURNING BUT NOTHING WAS COMING OUT. EMPLOYEE CHECKED FOR MUD BY INSERTING HIS HAND IN AIR LOCK, WHEN HE DID HIS FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE PADDLE WHEEL AND HOUSING ONT EH AIR LOCK CUTTING HIS FINGER TIP.
HE THOUGHT HE HAD BURNED HIS EYE WHILE DOING SOME WELDING ON A TOWMOTOR WHEN IT WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM ON 11-08 HE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE IT WAS DISCOVERED HE ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING IN HIS EYE HE WAS SENT TO AN EYE DOC TO HAVE FOREIGN OBJECT REMOVED HE HAD WORN A FACE SHIELD WHEN HE WAS WELDING ON THE TOWMOTOR <SAFETY GLASSES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE USE|
EMPL WAS OPERATING THE LARGE PACK LINE RUNNING THE BAG SEALER WHEN HE MOMENTARILY GLANCED TO THE SIDE HE CAUGHT HIS L THUMB IN THE SEALER
EMPL WAS WIPING DOWN THE SEWING MACHINE ON TEH PACKAGING MACHINE ON THE PACKAGING LINE WHEN HIS FINGER PASSED OVER A PHOTO ELECTRIC EYE WHICH ACTIVATED THE RIBBON CLIPPER ON THE SEWING MACHINE CUTTING THE TIP OF HIS R LONG FINGER
TWISTED L. HAND APPLYING PRESSURE TO BAGS.
ATTEMP T CLEAR JAM UP ON BALER TABLE, GOT THUMB OF R HAND CAUGHT AT PINCH POINT OF BALER CLAMP CYLINDER SUFFERED CONTUSION TO THUMB OF R HAND.
EMPTYING SM DUMPSTER ROCKER MECHAN. DUMPS THE CONTENTS. HAND UNDER ROCKER RELEASED LEVER ROCKER CAME FORWARD MASHED 3 FINGERS ON R HAND
EMPL WELDING IN CONFINED AREA WHEN FOREITN PARTICLE BLEW INTO RIGHT EYE.
WMPLOY A PULLEY & THE V-BELT
EMPL MOVING PALLET OF BAGS WITH ELEC HANDJACK.HANDLE TWISTED JERKING EMPL AND HURTING LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING WITH CUTTING TORCH.HE WAS HOT ANS SWEATING AND SAFETY GLASSES KEPT SLIPPING DOWN.A PICE OF SLAG POPPED AND HIT HIM IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING U LINE USING AN AIR GUN TO BLOW DUST & LOOSE STONE OFF OF LINE WHILE USING AIR GUN A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATERIAL WAS BLOWN IN LEFT EYE
EMPL WAS USING PIPE THREADER. CHUCK WRENCH WAS ON THREADER. EMPL ACCIDENTALLY STARTED THREADER. THIS BROUGHT CHUCK WRENCH DOWN AGAINST STATIONARY STOP CATCHING HIS FINGER. THIS SEVERED E ND OF LEFT RING FINGER.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING BAGS INTO A HEAT SEALER,WHEN A STEEL DUST PICKUP(A SUCTION DEVICE USED TO PICK UP AIRBORNE DUST)MOUNTED ABOVE AND JUST TO THE SIDE OF THE SEALING UNIT FELL,HITTING HIS HAND AS HE WAS FEEDING THE SEALING UNIT.CONTUSION TO MIDDLE FINGER AND INDEX FINGERS.THE DUST PICKUP IS HELD INTO PLACE BY TRWO BOLTS.THE VIBRATION FROM OTHER EQUIPMENT HAD LOOSENED THE DUST
EMP. WAS SEALIN1 BAGS ON THE LARGE PAK LINE WHEN HE POPPED THE BAG TO SEAL IT AND HIS WRIST POPPED AND BEGAN TO GIVE HIM PAIN IN THE WRIST AS UT WAS BENT.(PREVIOUS INJURY ON SAME WRIST08-14-87 NO LOST TIME) 3
EMPLOYEE WAS FE9DING 25 POUND BAGS THROUGH THE WESTVACO PINCH-PAK SEALER.SHE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES.AS SHE FED A BAG INTO THE SEALER,THE TIP OF THE GOVE ON THE LEFT HAND BECAME CAUGHT BETWE EN THE ROLLERS 5ND PULLED THE FINGERS OF THE LEFT HAND INTO THE ROLLERS OF THE SEALER.THE LEFT HAND HAS SEVERAL LACERATIONS ON THE FINGERS AND ONE FRACTURED FINGER.
EMPLOYEE PLACED3A BALE BAG ON THE MACHINE S MANDREL. THE BAG WAS CROOKED. HE PLACED HIS HAND ON THE BALE BAG TO HELP STRAIGHTEN THE BALER. AFTER THE AIR RAM CYLED TO FILL THE BALER, HIS HAND D ROPPED DOWN BET4EEN THE MACHINE AND THE RETURNING AIR RAM PLATE, CATCHING THE EMPLOYEE S HAND THE EMPLOYEE INSTINCTIVELY PULLED HIS HANG UPWARD, CAUSING THE INJURY. INJURY WAS TO RIGHT HAND R
EMP WAS WELDING3ON A CONVEYOR IN OUT ADDITIVE ROOM. THERE WAS A BARE SPOT ON THE LEAD STRINGER CABLE AND HE BURNED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THIS
EMP WAS BAGGING3ON LINE, WHEN HE PUT A 10# BAG OF PRODUCT IN A BALER AND FOREIGN MATERIAL CAME OUT OF BAG AND WENT IN LEFT EYE
LINE 2 STOPPED 7HE LINE AT 11 30 BREAK, LEAVING A HALF SEWN BAG. I NAME DECIDED TO START THE LINE AND FINISH SEWING THE BAG. HOLDING THE BAG BY HAND, HE GOT HIS LITTLE FINGER CAUGHT IN THE MA CHINE BETWEEN T2E COMPRESSION BELT AND THE ROLLER. AS THE MACHINE PINCHED THE FINGER. HE PULLED HIS FINGER FREE CAUSING THE DAMAGE TO HIS FINGER.
OPERATOR WAS GUIDING BAGS INTO SEALER, HELD ONE BAG TOO LONG AN D HAND WAS PULLED INTO MACHINE. BAG HAD SMALL RIP IN RIGHT HAND SIDE AND WAS FOLDING THIS OVER LITTLE AND HOLDING IT TO FEED INT O SEALER TO HAVE PERFECT SEAL.