EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 2" WATER HOSE TO CLEAN AND BUILD UP UNDER OUR WET SCREEN. HE STEPPED ON SOME LOOSE MATERIAL THAT GAVE WAY CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE. HE FELL FORWARD AND STOPPED HIS FALL WITH HIS HANDS. THE HOSE WAS UNDER ONE HAND HIS LEFT AND THE FREE END OF THE HOSE CLAMP HOLDING THE NOZZLE TO THE HOSE PUNCTURED HIS PALM.
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Showing all 6EMPLOYER WAS INSIDE WEIGH HOPPER OF BATCH PLANT. AFTER FINISHING HE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT BY JUMPING UP TO EDGE OF HOPPER TO CLIMB OVER, HIS HARD HAT FELL OFF AND HIS HEAD HIT THE BRACKET ON T HE DUMP ATE THAT THE AIR CYL. ATTACHES TO AND CUT HIS HEAD.
OPERATOR WAS GETTING OUT OF THE CAB OF HIS MACHINE AND STUBBED HIS FOOT ON A RIB OF THE CAT WALK THAT WAS PROTRUDING SLIGHTLY BECAUSE OF A DENT TO THE CATWALK.HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL OFF MACHINE,LANDED ON HIS FEET APPROX 7 FEET DOWN FROM CATWALK.SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.
GETTING OUT OF 1IT TRUCK.SLIPPED AND FELL OFF WALK.
WAS GETTING OUT3OF CAB OF TRUCK AND MISSED THE STEP ON THE CATWALK AND FELL OFF CAT WALK
CLIMBING LADDER3TO LOADER CAB-SLIPPED.