The injured employee was blowing dust off the plant with compressed air, while blowing the dust off they broke protocol and inserted the air nozzle behind a guard on the under side of a tail pulley. The pulley yanked the nozzle from the employees hands cutting their palm.
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October 3, 2018
WI · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
POWERED HAULAGE
The Kraemer Company LLC · Struck against stationary object
November 30, 2005
WI · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
POWERED HAULAGE
The Kraemer Company LLC · Struck against a moving object
Employee reports stiffness in back due to operating loader on frozen ground.
July 16, 2003
WI · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
POWERED HAULAGE
The Kraemer Company LLC · Rubbed or abraded
EE STATED THAT SEAT IN LOADER CAUSED INFECTION IN HIS LEG.
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