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January 24, 2006 AR · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
US Vanadium, LLC · Struck by flying object

After EE completed grinding a weld on a handrail with a 4" grinder, he raised his face shield and a small debris particle came off the faceshield, went between his eyebrow and glasses and got is his left eye. He missed one day of work for a doctor's exam to check his eye. He was treated and he was prescribed eye drops. There is no permanent damage to the left eye.

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