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April 24, 2012 WY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Converse County · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was cutting off bolts (on the cone crusher) that hold the cone to the frame when he reached to move a chunk of bolt and the torch caught on his glove and burned the back side of his hand.

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