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EE WENT TO SHUT DOWN & DRAIN A 3" HONDA WATER PUMP. PUMP HAD QUIT PUMPING & HEAT HAD BUILT UP. AS EE APPROACHED PUMP THE DISCHARGE HOSE BLEW OFF & BURNED HIS HAND WITH STEAM CAUSING 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
IN PREPARATION TO REMOVE AUGER HEAD FROM MACHINE, EE REMOVED CUTTING BITS AND PREPARED TO MOVE FROM UNDER HIGHWALL. HE SLIPPED AND GRABBED HOLED OF THE HEAD GUIDE TO PREVENT FALLING. OPERATOR TIGHTENED BOOM CABLE AT THIS TIME, PULLING UP ON HEAD AND PINCHING HIS LITTLE FINGER/ LEFT HAND BETWEEN HEAD AND GUIDE. FRACTURE AND LACERATIONS TO FINGER RESULTED.
EE WAS STANDING ON CATWALK OF AUGER MACHINE WHILE OPERATOR WAS MOVING AUGER FLIGHT WITH BOOM. BOOM HOOK CAME UNHOOKED AND SWUNG TOWARD EE. HE JUMPED DOWN OFF OF AUGER MACHINE AND LANDED FLAT F OOTED KNEES LOCED HE STOVED HIS BACK.
WHILE LOADING AUGER FLIGHTS ONTO THE BOOM TRUCK, EMPLOYEES FOOT (RIGHT) BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO AUGERS, JUST AS THE BOOM TRUCK OPERATOR TIGHTENED THE LIFT CHAIN ON A THIRD AUGER SPINNING IT 1/4 TURN AND CAUSING THE AUGERS NEXT TO IT TO MOVE-PINNING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
WHILE OPERATING THE AUGER MACHINE A ROCK FELL FROM THE HIGHWALL AT AN UNKNOWN HEIGHT AND STRUCK THE OPERATOR ON THE LEFT KNEE CAP.
WHILE TRYING TO PULL THE LEAD AUGER FLIGHT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE AUGER PILE, FEMALE END OF AUGER BECAME TANGLED WITH THE OTHER AUGERS, MALE END SWUNG AROUND AND BOOM OPERATOR WAS CAUGHT BETWE EN AUGER FLIGHTING AND BOOM STATION, HITTING HIM IN THE BACK.
EE STEPPED UP ON CATWALK OF SALEM 1500 AUGER MACHINE TO RETURN GREASE GUN TO WHERE HE FOUND IT. AT THIS TIME THE OPERATOR REVERSED THE CARRIAGE SO THE NEXT AUGER FLIGHT COULD BE SET IN HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MAIN ENGINE FUEL TANK AND REAR LIFTING JACK SUSTAINING TRAUMA TO HIS BACK AND RIGHT HIP.
WARMING RIGHT HAND ON MUFFLER OF MAIN ENGINE,LEFT HAND RESTING ON RADIATOR SHROUD.WENT TO MOVE LEFT HAND TOWARD MUFFLER AND GOT HAND BETWEEN RADIATOR SHROUD AND FAN GUARD.LEFT INDEX FINGER CON TACTED FAN.