Employee was using a wheelbarrow with a reasonable load but it was on a slight slope and it gained momentum and they were holding onto the handle as it rolled into an outer equipment guard. Employee was wearing leather gloves but, the weight/momentum combined with hitting that metal guard cover caused two fingernails on left hand to be removed after it was smashed in between.
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February 28, 2024
AR · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
NONPOWERED HAULAGE
US Vanadium - Benton, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
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