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When using a chain hoist to rig a conveyor belt, employee got hand caught between chain hoist and motor. Resulting in a finger laceration to the left pinky.
Employee was welding pin back in place on left side of bucket and a hot spark went into left ear.
While ee was loosening nut on feeder gear box, nut free wheeled cutting finger on bolt that was sticking out.
Working on the heavy media prewet screen. 6x6 beams were cracked in half. Screen sees a lot of water, so it was rusty. Took the screen off deck of prewet to be grinded. Was wearing safey glasses and hard had with light attached and also had another light there. Had dust rag, steel could have been on rag when he wiped face. Did not get medical treatment until 8/17/09.
EE leaned up against previously cut hot plate and burned his right forearm. EE also has poison ivy on both arms, not sure where on the job he got that.
While cleaning mud accumulation out of discharge chute the air lance got stuck in the muddy material causing employee a strain of the left shoulder.
WHILE USING AN AIR CHISEL, A FROZEN LUMP OF MATERIAL BROKE FREE WITH THE TOP OF THE RIGHT HAND GETTING PINCHED BETWEEN THE HANDLE OF THE AIR CHISEL AND IRON FRAME OF CONVEYER.