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Using a bar to clean a chute, when employee felt chest pop and thought nothing of it. Moved onto next chute when employee felt chest and back pop and felt pain
Injured employee and two other workers were replacing wear iron in Canica Impact Crusher when the hydraulically raised cover which was supplemented by support from a hydraulic jack which failed and knocked out the safety bar causing the lid to drop approximately 9" and rotate pinning injured employee's thigh against hand railing.
On 6/27/14 the EE indicated that the injury occurred on 6/20/2014. He explained that they had been lying on their backs tightening an adjustment nut for the belt with a wrench. It was an awkward position as they had to pull on the wrench at the same time to get the nit to tighten properly. He felt a little pain in his groin but he said it did not hurt that bad.