Employee was cutting a bearing race off with a grinder. EE forgot EE's safety glasses and a piece of metal came back and hit EE in the eye.
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Showing all 5Employee was making a hydraulic hose, using a die. When employee went to set the die on the hose, it slipped, and the die smashed the middle finger on employee's left hand.
While wearing Bouton Optical Clear safety glasses, grinding 3/4" thick piece of steel, secured in a vise, on a workbench, with a 4 1/2 inch Makita corded grinder, a small piece of steel ricochet behind EE's safety glasses and went into EE's right eye.
Employee was unloading two pieces of flat steel out of a pickup truck with an overhead crane. The chains slipped and moved to the center of the steel, causing it to slide and strike the employee's right wrist. Resulted in a contusion/sprain to wrist.
Was welding a trailer. A spark came off and melted through employee's shoe and burned in between employee's toes.