TURNING SWITCH ON BOX, CAUGHT R THUMB IN LATCH
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Showing all 7EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WORKING ON RETIMING CHAINON 633 SCRAPER WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE PIN IN CHAIN WHEN THE OTHER EMPLOYEE LET BAR DOWN & IT CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FIN GER AS HE WAS SETTING THE PIN HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS BRUISED & CUT & A FX OF THE DISTAL TUFT
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS CHECKING RADIATOR CAP ON JAWS OF MACHINE-REACHED OVER TO TIGHTEN THE CAP AND CAP OFF STEAM BURNED LEFT SIDE OF FAE,NECK ARM AND CHEST.
INSTALLING PIPE ON ROUGHER TAIL PUMP DISCHARGE EMPLOYEE TOLD BY I.NAME TO TOSS MECHANIC BAR TO HIM WHILE HE WAS ABOUT 20FT IN FULTON AERIOA PLATFORM BAR HIT A WATER PIPELINE & STRUCK I.NAME IN RIGHT HAND
HE WAS HELPING CLEANUP TRASH AT CHEMICAL PIT AREA. WHILE BENT OVER, A FELLOW EMPLOYEE MOVED SOME ADJACENT TRASH ON WHICH RESTED A PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS LEANING AGAINST THE ADJACENT TOOL HOUSE . THE MOVEMENT OF THE TRASH RESULTED IN THE PIPE FALLING AND STRUCK INJURED ON THE LOWER BACK AREA. RESULT WAS LUMBAR MUSCULAR STRAIN.
INJURED APPARENTLY USED A MUSHROMMED CHISEL WITH A HAMMER TO LOOSEN A SOLIDIFIED CHUNK OF PULVERIZED CHEMICAL FROM INSIDE WALL OF THE DRYER-AND A PIECE OF THE CHISEL HEAD SPALLED-OFF AND ENTER ED HIS INDIDE OF LEFT THIGH.
INJURED STEPPED OUT OF CAB OF HIS TRUCK TO GROUND ALONGSIDE WHICH APPEARED SOLID HOWEVER THE AREA UNDERNEATH WAS ERRODED AND THE SURFACE GAVE AWATY AND HIS RIGHT FOOT WENT INTO THE ERRODED SPA CE AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT IN THE ACTION