EMPLOYEE WAS BAGGING BLAST SAND AND STACKING BAGS ON PALLETS. HE HAD HIS HAND AGAINST 25 INCLINED X 10 FT LONG X 12" WIDE 35 FT/MIN TRANSFER BELT CONVEYOR WAITING ON A FILLED BAG TO EXIT END O F CONVEYOR AND HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT AND 2" SNUMBBER RETURN ROLLER UNDER 6" DIAM. HEAD PULLEY CAUSING THE INJURY. MEDICAL ATTENTION INVOLVED BANDAGING ABRASION WOUND ON FOREARM AND
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Showing all 3EMPLOYEE WAS MA5ING ROUTINE CHECK OF WORKPLACE AND FOUND A PIECE OF WOOD IN THE SCREW CONVEYOR, WHICH FEEDS CLAY TO ROTARY DRYER. EMPLOYEE REACHED TO REMOVE WOOD, WITHOUT STOPPING AND LOCKING OUT THE MACHINE2 AND LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT MOMENTARILY IN THE CONVEYOR. THE RESULTING INJURY WAS A SEVERE LACERATION AND COMPOUND FRACUTRE OF THE LEFT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN UNHOOKING WIRE ROPE CABLES FROM REAR HITCH ON BULLDOZER, WHICH WAS STUCK AND WAS STANDING WITH RIGHT LEG BETWEEN CABLES. TERES TS-14 SCRAPER, USED TO PULL DOZER, MIST AKENLY STARTED FORWARD BEFORE CABLES WERE UNHOOKED AND THE TIGHTENED CABLES CAUGHT EMPLOYEES RIGHT LEG CALF