Employee was standing on the third step of a 5 step ladder. He was cutting a piece of metal off a truck dump body. He used a bar to finish taking off the metal strip. When the metal came loose employee lost his balance and fell to the floor.
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Showing all 5EE was working on a tail pulley in the shop. He was using a carbide cut off saw and the blade broke and a piece flew up and hit him in the forehead.
A pin was being removed from a crane's drive chain. The pin would not come out so heat was applied to the pin from both sides of the pin. The injured employee was told to put the torch away, while 2 other employees hammered on the pin. The injured employee returned and bent down on the other side of the track to look at the pin. The pin let go and struck the employee in the chin.
Employee was working in the shop and stepped back and tripped over a wooden block. He stopped his fall with his left wrist. He stress-fractured one of the bones.
EE was polishing a shaft for a conveyor on a lathe. He was wearing bulky welding gloves at the time of the accident. He put a strip of sand paper completely around the shaft. The paper and his glove cought on the shaft pulling and bending his wrist. Nearby employees shut down the lathe.