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WHILE CUTTING 2" METAL PIPE AT HEAD LEVEL WITH METAL CUTTING BANDSAW, EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING GET INTO HIS EYE.
WHEN DONE WELDING ON TOP OF A NEW TANK, THE INDIVIDUAL HAD TAKEN OFF HIS WELDING HOOD AND NOT PUT ON HIS HARD HAT. THE INDIVIDUAL LATER KNOCKED A C CLAMP LOOSE AND IT STRUCK HIS HEAD RESULTING IN A LACERATION REQUIRING 5 SUTURES.
WHILE CHANGING CUTTING EDGE ON 980 LOADER, EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING NUT WITH LEFT HAND. THE NUT SPUN FROM THE AIR WRENCH TORQUE RESULTING IN A CUT LEFT HAND.
WHILE MOVING THE BLAST HOLE DRILL TO THE NEXT HOLE, DRILLER WAS POSITIONING DRILL STEM THROUGH DECK TO START NEXT HOLE. DECK BUSHING HUNG UP ON DRILL STEM ABOVE THE HAMMER BIT. WHEN HIS HAND P USHED ON DRILL STEM THE DECK BUSHING SLIPPED DOWN STRIKING LEFT THUMB.
EE WAS CHANGING ACENTER CUTTING EDGE ON #LD-4 99L LOADER WHEN LOSENING BOLTS TO CUTTING EDGE THE BOLT COME OUT OFTHE BOLT HOLE GROVE, SO EE WAS PUSHING IT BACK INTO GROVE WITH FINGERS WHILE A LSO LOOSENING IT WITH IMPACT GUN, THE BOLT CAME UP OUT OF GROVE ANDSPUN AROUND IN HIS FINGERS RESULTING IN CUT MIDDLE & INDEX FINGERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON FLOOR WELDING. WHEN HE STOOD UP FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE. EVALULATED BY PYSICIAN. DIAGNOSED AS MINOR SPRAIN AND RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK. PAIN CONTINUED. EVALUATED AGAI N AND DIAGNOSED AS TORN CARTILEGE ON 7-1-92. SURGERY REQUIRED 7-6-92. EMPLOYEE OFF WORK AT THIS TIME. EMPLOYEE HAD EXPERIENCED PROBLEMS WITH KNEE PRIOR TO INJURY.
EMPL WAS UNBOLTING WEAR PLATE FROM LOADER BUCKET USING AIR IMPACT WRENCH. HE WAS USING LEFT HAND TO STABILIZE WORN BOLT HEAD WHEN IT SPUN & CUT FINGERS. LACERATIONS REQUIRED 28 SUTURES HOWEVER EMPL DID RETURN TO REGULAR JOB ON NEXT SHIFT.
PLACE WIRE WELDER FEED GUN ACROSS LAP IT ENTERED L KNEE
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AN ARC WITH WELDER AND FOUND THAT HIS WELDING LENS HAD BROKEN. THE RESULTING FLASH BEEN BECAME PAINFUL, THE NEXT DAY AND THE EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION. THE PHYSICIAN TY LENOL #3 FOR PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SHIMS BEHIND A NEW SWINGJAW IN THE JAW CRUSHER & WHILE A MOBILE WAS USED T O HOLD THE WEIGHT OF THE SWING JAW JAW MUST HAVE BEEN BOUND UP BECAUSE WHEN THE EMPLOYEE PRYE D IT OUT TO PLACE THE SHIMS IT POPPED UP & ABOUT 8IN.PINNING EMPLOYEE CRANE TG ENSION WAS RE LEASED & EMPLOYEE FREED & TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS EVALUATED & R ELEA SED
EMPLOYEE WAS USING CRANE TO LIFT GRINDING BALL BUCKET AND GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND A HANDRAIL.
GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL ON GRINDER & A PIECE OF METAL HIT HIM IN THE EYE HE CLAIMES THE GRINDER SHIELD WAS IN PLACE HE WAS SWEARING A SAFETY GLASSES & A FULL FACE SHIELD
SUBJECT WAS OPERATING A GAS POWERED COMPACTOR TAMPER AROUND THE FOOTING OF THE NEW UTILITY BUILDING THER WAS WATER IN THE DITCHES HE WAS COMPACTING AND THE COMPACTOR KEPT GETTING STUCK IN THE MUD THE BACK INJURY RESULTED AFTER HE REPEATEDLY LIFTED THE COMPACTOR OUT OF THE MUD
SUBJECT WAS USI3G AN AIR OPERATED PAVEMENT BREAKER TO BREAK ROCKS THAT WERE STUCK IN THE JAW CRUSHER. THE AIR LINE CAME LOOSE AT THE CONNECTIONS AND THE HOSE HIT HIM IN THE JAW.
STANDING ON WALL INSTALLING PUC PIPE VERTICALLYU USING A BACKHOE FOR DOWN PRESSURE PIPE PUSHED TOWARDS HIM KNOCKING HIN OFF BALCNCE & FELL INTO SUMP APPROX 12\ TOTAL FALL FROM TOP OF WALL FRAC TURED TALUS DISLOCATION RIGHT FOOT
INJURED PARTY WAS STEAMCLEANING HD-31 TRACTOR WHEN PARTICLE WAS DISLODGED ANDFLEW INTO EYE. PARTY DID NOT FEEL INJURY WAS BAD & DID NOT REQUEST AND PARTY TOOK TIME TO SEE DR AND WAS UNABLE TO WORK FOR BALANCE OF D AY.