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EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING TREE AT MINE SITE. EMPLOYEE SAID IT WAS CARELESS MISTAKE THAT HE GOT HIS LEG TOO CLOSE TOO THE SAW. SAW JUST TIPPED HIS KNE EON LEFT LEG. EMPLOYEE WENT TO DR IN SPUCE P INE, WHERE THEY CLEANED THE WOUND AND PUT 4-5 SIITCHES. RESULT WAS MINOR EMLOYEE REUTRNED TO WORK WITH NO LOST TIME.
EE WAS CUTTING GASKET MATERIAL WITH POCKET KNIFE WHEN HE LET THE KNIFE SLIP AND CUT THE END OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. EE WENT TO ER, HAD FINGER STITCHED AND REUTRNED TO WORK. NO LOST TIME.
EE HAD JUST EMPTIED METAL DUMP HOPPER. AFTER DUMPING, THE HOPPER HAS TO BE SNAPPED BACK INTO LOCK POSITION. EE DID NOT USE BOTH HANDS ON TOP OF HOPPER TO CLOSE THE LATCH, HE ROCKED THE HOPPER BACK ONTO HIS RIGHT HAND. DR CORT AT SPRUCE PINE HOPSITAL CLEANED WOUND AND PUT STITCHES IN FIRST TWO FINGERS OF RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE STARTED TO MOVE A PIECE OF 6" PIPE APPROX. 10' LONG. WHEN THE PIPE MOVED, IT MASHED THE TIP OF HIS FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
SMALL AMOUNT OF LIQUID FLOCULENT HAD BEEN SPILLED ON FLOOR MAKING A SLIPPERY CONDITION