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EMPLOYEE WAS ON A CONVEYOR MEASURING FOR A MOTOR MOUNT. HE FELL FACE FOWARD ON THE BELT AFTER THE BELT WAS STARTED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHO DID NOT KNOW HE WAS ON THE BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS EXAMINING CONVEYOR MOTOR TO DETERMINE REASON IT HAD TALLED THE VICTIM WAS RESTING HIS HAND ON ALTERNATOR BELT WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO START ENGINE CAUSING VICTIMS MIDDL E FINGER ON LEFT HAND TO BE PULLED INTO THE PULLEY
THIS ACCIDENT W5S REPORTED ON 6-1-87 AND HE HAD BEEN WORKING SINCE 7:30AM I,NAME TATED THAT HE HURT BACK ON 5-3087 WHILE DUMPING LOAD OF ROCK BUT DID NOT REPORT IT. AT ABOUT 10:30AM ON 6-1-87 HE SAID HE SHO6LD GO TO DR (TRAINING) WENT TO DR AND HAD PULLED MUSCLE.
THE CUSTOMER WH2 IS THE OWNER OPERATOR AND NOT EMPLOYED BY MEDUSA HAD PULLED HIS TRUCK UP TO GET LAST PART OF LOAD, STEPPED OUT ON RUNNING BOARD OF HIS TRUCK TO INSPECT HIS LOAD, AT THAT TIME A ROCK FELL FRO4 #1 CONVEYOR AT A GLANCING LICK AND HIT HIS HARD HAT THEN BVOUNCED ONTO RIGHT SHOULDER CAUSING A HAIRLINE FRACTURE OF HIS SCAPULA.