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A hand held electric grinding wheel kicked back into the operators face as he was preparing an area for welding. He received a severe cut to his chin/lip and two damaged teeth.
Driver was on the reach of the pup trailer when load was topped off. Rock bounced off the bucket of the loader onto truck box and struck him.
Rock rolled down shot, hit on another rock and broke apart, hit employee in the eye. The employee waited a few days to seek medical attention because he thought it was fine.
Plastic handle screw driver was hit with hammer and the end of handle exploded and struck EE in the left eye.
The employee was installing final insulated hangers on high voltage cable without power being turned off. Contacted old splice area, received flash burn to right hand, finger, wrist.
Was scaling rock off of rock face when rip-rap hit the victim on the side of the foot & broke his big toe.
The ee mentioned was injured while making an adjustment to the fine side of the Pioneer triple rolls. A threaded hydraulic fitting apparently damaged at previous time blew out of the hydraulic adjusting ram & the hose it was attached to hit ee in the leg & blew oil into his face & right eye.
Removing broken screen deck, pinched right middle finger, swollen and bruised finger tip.
SLIPPED ON LOOSE ROCKS WHILE CHUCKTENDING ON DRILL RIG & TWISTED, FELL & SMACKED ELBOW.
STEPPING OFF EQUIPMENT, STEPPED DOWN TO GROUND, TWISTED ANKLE.
WAS WORKING IN A CONFINED AREA GRINDING. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT OBJECT MANAGED TO GET IN AROUND GLASSES.