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The pigtail of a crane swung and caught the employee. Knocked off forehead and caused a laceration on EE's forehead.
While scooping dirt, the fire extinguisher at the employee's feet discharged spraying employee's left side and face. EE drove the skid steer to the air compressor and blew the powder off person and the cab of the skid steer and let the supervisor know. EE was still experiencing shortness of breath days later so EE got an inhaler to assist in reducing symptoms.
EE was rolling a screen in position with left hand and using a small hand grinder on the screen. Grinder caught on screen, kicked the grinder back striking ee on left thumb.
Operator of shovel was loading large boulder onto rear end of haul truck(60 ton haul truck). The boulder slipped out of bucket and dropped into bed of truck. The bed raised up and then came back down with force causing whiplash type injury to haul truck driver.
EE was using a torch to cut a weld. He turned his head and accidently pulled the torch across his hand.