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Employee was preparing a rear bumper on service truck #7 to weld on by grinding with an air grinder and the grinding wheel came apart and struck employee's abdomen cutting open employee's stomach.
EE was assisting with removal of the front hubs on the 988F front end loader. While they were attempting to place the hub on shop floor with use of overhead crane, EE had placed a lifting strap around hub & to the crane hook, EE was trying to force the hub to set down level & right hand middle finger became pinched between strap & a 90 oil fitting on the hub.
While assembling a 12-inch pipe, using an excavator as a crane, the pipe moved bumping EE in the right thigh. EE was taken to the clinic and diagnosed with a bruised right hip and strain of right thigh. Physical therapy was recommended. This was treated as a first aid until 6/15/2016 when the clinic requested that the EE see a doctor for continued pain.
Employee was removing bolts from crusher top shell with air gun and caught his right thumb between the air gun handle and top shell of the crusher.
Employee was using a pneumatic chipping hammer with a chisel head to aid in the removal of an axle on a water truck. The chisel dislodged from the hammer and struck the employee on the upper lip. Sutures closed the laceration.
Employee was operating back hoe moving raw material in front of pit feeder for block wall placement when he felt tightness in his back from bouncing in the seat of the equipment while operating it.
Employee was overhead welding a cross brace in the wet screen when hot slag dripped into the gap of his long sleeve shirt where it buttons at the wrist and it gave him 2 small burns on his left elbow. The small burns developed into an infection which resulted in lost time because employee did not report the incident to his supervisor until 4/14/2009
Employee was drilling a welding lug connected to a 6" piece of cable and a quick connect. The drill press's bit caught the lug and pulled the cable into the drill as well as his hand that was holding the cable. He was correctly not wearing any gloves while operating the press. He was not using the equipment supplied clamping device.
While operating a dozer the employee felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder and shoulder blade. Initially this was first aid only. Employee terminated 11/06/07 due to work force reduction prior to being released to return to work full duty (right shoulder surgery performed 12/13/07).
While using a torch to cut off the swing die bolts, one of the bolts struck out hitting the employee above the left knee then rolling up the left arm.
Employee was cutting steel from loading box when he was struck by the 15" by 50" plate.
Cummulative trauma to tailbone from use track hoe for mud haul.
When the employee was visually inspecting a hoist he motioned to a fellow employee to engage the hoist to see if he could tell what the problem with the hoist was. When the hoist was engaged, a manual handle located nearby struck the employee on the left side of his hard hat protected head.
Adding extra steel length to drill steel - pinched inside of right thumb when coupling.
EE WAS GRINDING WELDS WITH A 7" GRINDER; GRINDING WHEEL STRUCK EE'S LEFT KNEE.
PORT SIDE RAKE MOVED TO STARBOARD SIDE, BUMPED STARBOARD SIDE RAKE & CUT EE'S ANKLE BREAKING HIS LEG