EE WAS WORKING AROUND PIT AREA & SLIPPED & FELL ON FROZEN GROUND. AREA OF FALL WAS FLAT. EE HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW HARD ON THE GROUND, CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES TO CLOSE.
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Showing all 7EE WAS USING A SLUGGER DRILL TO DRILL HOLES IN LEG SUPPORTS ON CONVEYOR BELT. WHILE DRILL WAS TURNING, EE USED HIS INDEX FINGER TO FLIP DRILL CUTTINGS AWAY FROM BIT. HIS FINGER WAS PULLED IN TO BIT & A HALF MOON SHAPED PIECE OF FINGER WAS CUT OUT. EE WAS WEARING LIGHT CLOTH GLOVES. DRILL CUTTINGS CAUGHT ON CLOTH CONTRIBUTED TO INJURY.
EE REPORTED THAT HE SLAMMED THE TAILGATE ON DUMPTRAILER TO CLEAN OUT MATERIAL FROM TRAILER BED. EE FELT A WARM SENSATION IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER EE WAS UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE HAD STRETCHED HIS SH OULDER OR JAMMED HIS SHOULDER. HE THOUGHT A MUSCLE HAD BEEN PULLED LATER INTO EE'S SHIFT HE WAS DISMOUNTING A WHEELLOADER & HIS SHOULDER POPPED OUT OF SOCKET & THEN WENT BACK INTO SOCKET
EE HAD DELIVRED A LOADER TO THIS LOCATION. A DRILLER WAS OPERATING AN AIR TRACK DRILL WITH A TAGAIR COMPRESSOR. EE NOTICED THAT THE DRILLER WAS STRUGGLING WITH GETTING THE AIR HOSE OFF THE AIR COMPRESSOR ROCK. HE LIFTED THE HOSE FREE FROM SNAG ON THE ROCK AS THE HOSE CAME OFF THE RACK THEHOSE SHIFTED & STRUCK EE IN THE MOUTH
EE WAS REMOVING RUBBER INSULATION FROM AN ELECTRICAL CORD USING RAZOR KNIFE. UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT LEFT FOREARM THIS LACERATION TO FOREAM REQUIRED SUTURES & DRESSING
EE WAS STANDING ON THE DOZER ARM AND TRACK OF DOZER REMOVING A BATTERY. SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE PUT OUT HIS ARM TO STOP THE FALL AND RIGHT WRIST BROKE.
INJURED WAS WORKING IN SHOP AREA REBUILDING A DIFFERENCIAL LEFT HAND WAS INSIDE HOUSING REMOVING GEAR FROM SHAFT GEAR SLIPPED AND PINCED FINGER JURKED HAND FROM HOSUING AND HIT ON SHARP EDGE C AUSING INJURY. ACCIDENT DID NOT INVOLVE LACK COMPLICNE WITH REGULATIONS NO MINE EQUIP WAS USED MINE WAS SKILLED AND PROFICINT WITH REGARD TO TRANING NO PROTECTIVE ITEMS WOULD HAVE REDUCED THE