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EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN OVERHEAD HOIST AND A TWO-PART SLING TO LIFT A SHAFT WEIGHING APPROX 200 LBS FROM A LATHE. AS THE SHAFT WAS BEING LIFTED, THE UNATTACHED PORTION OF THE SLING BECAME HUNG. AS THE LOAD WAS HOISTED, THE UNATTACHED PORTION THE SLING PULLLED FREE AND BEING UNDER TENSION CAME UP AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT UNLOADING LUMBER FROM A CHERRYPICKER. AS THE EMPLOYEE GOT OFF THE FORKLIFT TO UNHOOK THE LUMBER, THE FORKLIFT ROLLED FORWARD AND STRUCK THE LUMBER CAUSING IT TO SPIN AND STRIKE THE EMPLOYEE ABOVE HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING IN THE BUCKET OF A BUCKET TRUCK. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO LOWER HIMSELF TO THE GROUND, THE BUCKET MOVED IN AN UPWARD DIRECTION PINNING HIM WITH HIS ARMS SPREAD AGAINST THE BEAM. ,
EE STATES THAT HE WAS LEANING AGAINST THE HOOD OF A TRUCK WHEN ANOTHER EE ENGAGED THE TRANSMISSION AND THE TRUCK WHEEL RAN OVER HIS RIGHT FOOT.
INDIVIDUAL WAS DRIVING TRACTOR ALONG GRADED ROAD, RIGHT FRONT WHEEL WENT OVER THE EDGE OF THE ROAD AND TRACTOR ROLLED OVER INTO A DITCH.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A PAN WHEN HE LOST CONTROL CAUSING THE PAN TO TURN OVER LANDING ON ITS SIDE CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO SPRAIN HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
OPERATING CHERRY PICKER WHEN ENGINE STALLED CAUSING LOSS OF BRAKES.EMPL JUMPED FROM MACHINE AS IT STARTED ACCELERATING DOWN HILL CAUSING FX TO LEFT ANKLE.
INJURED EMPL WAS OPENING STOARGE BIN DOOR ON LINE TRUCK WHILE CO-WORKER WAS PUTTING DOWN OUTREIGGERS. AS OUTRIGGERS CAME DOWN ONE OF THEM STRUCK IN JURED EMPL ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE HAD STOPPED THE PAN HE WAS OPERATING TO CHECK A SLACK TIRE WHEN THE PAN FOLLOWING HIM HIT HIM IN THE REAR CAUSING HIM TO BE THROWN FROM HIS PAN THE DOOR LATCH STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER RT BACK JUST ABOVE THE BELT