TRIED TO ASSIST M AN CUTTING TREE WITH CHAIN SAW IT JUMPED CUTTING EMP ON L HAND WHILE HE WAS HOLDING BRANCH
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Showing all 5EE WAS PUTTING A PISTON BACK INTO CYLINDER ON THE FLOOR WITH THE CYLINDER UPRIGHT AND PISTON HANGING FROM CRANE. INSERTING PISTON INTO CYLINDER. WORKING PACKING INTO CYLINDER AS CYLINDER WAS L ET DOWN. PUSHING PACKING IN SO PISTON WOULD GO INTO CYLINDER. CYLINDER HEAD CAME DOWN CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN HEAD AND CYLINDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING OFF LADDER DRILLING FROM UNDER NEATH VALVE DIAPHAM USING A BLOCK OF WOOD AS A BACK STOP EMPLOYEE NOT RELIZING HE HAD DRILLED THRU THE WOOD BLOCK AND INTO HIS FINGER.
WAS BURNING A PIN ON PAN CONVEYOR WHEN A PIECE OF HOT METAL FELL INTO EAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOSING AND TURNING CHUCK ON LATHE WHEN CHUCK WRENCH STRUCK EMPLOYEE FINGER FORCING IT BACKWARDS.