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July 20, 2017 GA · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person MACHINERY
Savannah Sand Company, Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was repairing bent leg of dredge suction cage and was heating it with a torch. Second employee reach to move it and grabbed the hot piece of metal with employee's bare hand, Employee received Less than 1% second degree burns to employee's right hand.

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