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EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING APPROX. 6' FROM FELLOW EMPLOYEE WHO WAS CUTTING OUT OF A CAR DOOR. SLAG BLEW BACK INTO INJURED EMPLOYEE'S EYE. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
ON FRIDAY 10/25/91 EMPL WORKED ON EIGHT HOUR SHIFT BUILDING UP PULLY SHAFT ON PRI CRUHER. SHAFT WAS BUILT UP WITH WELD & RESURFACED BY USE OF SIDE GRINDER. EMPL EXPRERIENCED IRRITATION TO LEFT EYE LATER THAT DAME NIGHT WENT TO LOCAL DR ON SAT. WHER PIECE OF RUST WAS REMOVED FROM LEFT EYE. EMPL WAS REFERED TO DR IN POPLAR BLUFF FOR SCOOPING. TWO MORE PIECES F RUST WERE REMOVED.
THE WORK PLATFORM/BASKET THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE BOOM OF A GROVE CRANE FELL APPROX. 3 FT WHILE EE WAS IN IT, WORKING A WELD BROKE, CAUSING THE BASKET TO FALL A SAFETY A SAFETY CHAI N KEPT IT FROM FALLING FURTHER HE SCRATCHED AND BRUISE HIS RIGHT LEG.
WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH A SMALL PIECE OF LAG WAS BLOWN INTO THE RIGHT EYE. THE EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE FOLLOWING DAY WHERE HIS EYE BEGAN TO HURT.
WHILE LOADING E0UIPMENT PARTS ON TO A TRUCK USING A TRUCK BOOM (CRANE) A PIECE OF METAL OR DIRT GOT INTO HIS RT.EYE
HE WAS OPERATIN1 A CRANE, LIFTING A 500 LB JAW PLATE WHEN THE INNER SLEW RING BOLTS BROKE, THE BOOM AND CAB BECAME DISMEMBERED FROM THE FRAME AND ROLLED OFF THE SIDE TO THE GROUND, WITH THE OPERATOR STILL 3N THE CAB
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ABOUT 6TO8FT FROM RUNNING ROCK CRUSHER WEARING SAFETY GLASSES ROCK THE SIZE OF GOLF BALL HIT HIS SAFETY GLASSES IN RT LENS BREAKING LENS &PART OF GLASS FROM INSIDE THE LE NS WENT INTO HIS EYHE