Removing guard under 60" belt. EE was laying under the guard holding it with one hand. Could not hold it and dropped the guard on thigh.
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Showing all 4Stepped out of the bulldozer to urinate, the sidewall caved in, burying EE waist deep in gravel, pinning left leg against the track. Hit head on the ripper arm of the dozer, split head open.
Employee had finished operating the dozer and was walking away when he stepped on a dirt clump and broke his ankle.
Ee was welding on paddles of dozer when a piece of hot metal got into his ear and burned it.