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Operating excavator, started feeling pain in back and numbness in leg & foot.
Person was using a hand-held grinder in the shop on Tuesday. He was using eye protection. There was no immediate thought that he had received a foreign body, but the next day the eye became irritated. On Thursday he was seen by a doctor who removed a foreign body from the eye. There has been no on-going treatment needed and no lasting effects to the eye.
EE WAS WELDING AND GRINDING ON GEAR CASE. A PIECE OF STEEL HIT EE IN RIGHT EYE. IT WENT UNDER HIS WELDING HOOD AND GLASSES.