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Employee was trimming saplings off the river bank and while in the process of setting the chain saw down the chain saw struck the inside of left leg under knee resulting in laceration requiring 16 stitches.
Employee was rolling up a grease hose and in the process the grease gun struck the corner of the bed on the grease truck causing the trigger on the grease gun to depress injecting grease into the left index finger of the employee. This resulted in surgical removal of the grease.
3 employees were performing welding activities at the same time and in the process one employee was exposed to an arc flash from another welder resulting in temporary pain in the eyes. Employee sought medical attention at an eye doctor and was given one day off of work.
Employee was securing barge with tugger wire to timberhead and during this process accidentally hit the remote tugger winch on/off switch with his knee. As a result, the employee pinched his left hand fifth digit finger between the wire and timberhead. Employee fractured the tip of left hand fifth digit finger as well as received 3 stitches.
Employee was dropping a loaded barge down river. While doing this the employee was climbing the ladder access to the dock barges and at the same time the tipple operator was starting to hoist up the barge cable. EE's foot was caught between the ladder rung and the winch cable, which resulted in EE's left foot being broken.
Employee was clearing brush from the river bank at the upper bin and during this time the chainsaw he was using accidentally came in contact with his upper left left (thigh) resulting in a laceration. The laceration required 38 stitches to close.