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January 16, 2025 KY · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman MACHINERY
Northern Kentucky Aggregates Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was holding the grinder in one hand. Employee was looking at the screen and the grinder had drifted down touched the screen and then skipped over cutting through employee's glove.

August 9, 2024 KY · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand MACHINERY
Northern Kentucky Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employees were putting on the hoist cables for the dredge bucket while pulling cable up. Employee was feeding the cable over the drum to other employees. The cable had pinched employee's hand/finger into the hoist drum cutting through the gloves and cutting their right index finger.

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