Employee was changing the cutting edges on the bucket of the front end loader. While loosening one of the bolts, it spun in the hole and cut palm and middle finger of left hand. Twelve stitches.
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September 24, 2016
SD · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
MACHINERY
Myrl & Roys Paving Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
May 24, 2012
SD · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
MACHINERY
Myrl & Roys Paving Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances
EE was welding in the box of a haul truck. A piece of slag flew into his left eye.
March 31, 2009
SD · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
MACHINERY
Myrl & Roys Paving Inc · Struck by flying object
Employee was using a grinder on a machine part. A piece of metal flew up into his left eye.
Myrl & Roys Paving Inc · Struck by flying object
Employee was using an air compressor to blow debris off his clothes. Foreign objects in both eyes. Employee was wearing eye protection.
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