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GRINDING ON CONVEYOR RT EYE SEEMED IRRITATED EMPLOYEE USED EYE FLUSH EMPLOYEE DIDNT REPORT UNTIL A LATER DATE THAN WAS SENT TO AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST WHO REMOVED A FOREIGN PARTICLE FROM THE RT EYE THE DR PUT OINTMENT INTO THE EYE COVERED THE EYE FOR 24HRS APPARENTLY NO FURTHER PROBLEM WITH THE EYE EMPLOYEE USED SAFETY GLASSES

INJ EMPL WAS WORKING AROUND CRUSHER JACK THAT ANOTHER EMPL HAD PLACED ON CONE FELL OFF STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT HAND CAUSING LACERATION APPROX 1 1/2" LONG ON PALM OF HAND. DR SUTURED LACERATION E MPL WAS GIVEN MEDICATION HAND BECAME PAINFUL & SWOLLEN HE WAS XRAYED & GIVEN MEDICATION FOR INFECTION.

HE WAS TOLD TO WATCH THE WELDER WHO WAS USING THE CRUSHMERMATIC WELDING PROCESS. HE HAD HELMET FOR PROTECTION. HE WAS TOLD TO WATCH HIS EYES, AS THE WELDER STARTTS AUTOMATICALLY. HE WENT TO THE DR. THE NEXT MORNING AS HIS EYES WERE RED AND SORE.

EMP WA> OPER. D-8 CAT DOZER DURING THE DAY. LATER RT. EYE SEMDED IRITATED ON EVENING OF 3RD OF DEC. HE WENT TO MERCY MED. CENTER EMERR. ROOM. APPAR. EMP HAD TINY FOREIGN PARTICLE IN RT. EYE . THE PARTICLE WAS RE MOVED BY DR. WA6SH. IT WA> RECOMENDED THAT EMP EMP HAVE THE EFFECTED EYE CHECKED BY DR. ROSS OPHALMOGIST IN WEEK.

WHILE WELDING O3 A ROLL CRUSHER USING A CRUSHERMATIC AND STRIPING THE ROLL, THE EMPLOYEE, WAS APPARENTLY NOT USING PROTECTIVE HOOD ATALL TIMES. THEREFORE, BOTH EYES RECEIVED FLASH BURNS AND BE CAME RED, SWOLL9N, AND PAINFUL. THE EMPLOYEE WASTREATED AT AN EMERGENCY HOSPITAL ROOM WITH EYE MEDICATION AND A FOLLOW UP VISIT TO OPHTHALMOGOST DR. JENSEN.