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EMP WAS REPLACING REAR TIRE ON 988A CAT WHEEL LOADER. FENDER WAS HELD IN UPRIGHT POSITION WITH CAHIN COME A LONG. APPARENTLY CONE A LONG BROKE LETTING FENDER FALL AND FENDER STRIKING EMP ON TH E HEAD.
COOL MORNING, HEAVY DEW. OPERATOR WAS CHECKING HYDRAULIC LEVEL ON LOADER,OPERATOR WAS PUTTING CAP BACK ON WITH BOTH HANDS WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING FALLING STRAIGHT BACK OFF THE LOADER LANDING ON HIS BACK.
GOT OUT OF LOADER TO UNHOOK DOOR OF LOADER AND FELL OFF TIRE AND LANDED ON SIDE AND HURT HIS KNEE. WEATHER CONTITIONS (RAINING).
REPLACING BOLT IN HOIST TRUCK RUNNING INJ TO LITTLE FINGER ON L HAND
EMPLOYEE OPENED FUSE BOX TO CHECK FUSES, WHEN FUSE BOX BLEW UP. BURN TO RIGHT ARM FROM WRIST TO ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER INTO THE HOPPER.HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 2 AND 1/2 FEET.
GRINDING CLUTCH LEVER TO PUT NOTCH IN SO IT COULD BE WELDED. GRINDING DISK BROKE AS EMPLOYEE WAS COMING TO EDGE TO MATERIAL. DISK CAUGHT ON EDGE OF MATERIAL AND JERKED GRINDER FROM HAND, THEN DISK CAME BACK ON HAND LACARATION OF LEFT HAND AND THUMB GOT 1/4" GAP ON BACK OF LEFT THUMB ALL THE WAY TO BONE AND TOOK PIECE OF BONE. PIECES OF DISK STUCK IN NECK AND STOMACH.
MISSED RAMP AND STRUCK SCALE HOUSE. EMPLOYEE RAILED TO OBSERVE PROPER SPEED LIMIT.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGIN A HAMMER IN THE HAMMER MILL. THE HAMMER WEIGHT WAS APPROX. 100 POUNDS. THE HAMMER SLIPPED AND CUT THE END OFF OF EMPLOYEES SMALL FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND.
IT WAS A CLEAR3DAY MUD WAS CLOGGIN UP THE TAIL PULLEY EMPLOYEE WAS BETWEEN ROLL MILL FRAME AND BELT HE WAS GOING TO TRY AND CLEAN MUD FROM TAIL PULLEY EMPLOYEE WAS USING A LONG SCREW DRIVER TO SCRAPE OFF 4UD FROM PULLEY HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ACCIDENT HAPPENED QUICKLY HE CAUGHT EITHER HIS JACKET SLEEVE OF THE SCREW DRIVER IN TAIL PULLEY HIS ARM WAS PULLED UNDER THE TAIL PU