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PREPARING TO RE1AIR THE DRAG BEAM, INJURED WAS TACKING CHAIN OFF THE BEAM WHEN THE BEAM TRIPPED OVER ONTO HIS FOOT.
REPLACING 200 A4P FUSE ON DISTRIBUTION PANEL. FUSE BOX WAS INPUT TO CRUSHER FROM PRIVATE MAIN TRANSFORMER. SAFETY SWITCH WAS OPEN, BUT MAY HAVE FAILED. FUSE BOX WAS BLOWN APART. VICTIM SUFFERE D 1 ST AND 2 ND3DEGREE BURNS TO FACE, ARM, HAND AND LEGS FROM THE EXPLOSION AND ENSUANT BALL OF FIRE.
REPLACING 200 A4P FUSE ON DISTRIBUTION PANEL. FUSE BOX WAS INPUT TO CRUSHER FROM PRIVATE MAIN TRANSFORMER. SAFETY SWITCH WAS OPEN, BUT MAY HAVE FAILED. FUSE BOX WAS BLOWN APART. VICTIM SUFFERE D 2 & 3 RD DEGR9E BURNS TO FACE AND HANDS, AND 1 ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEGS FROM THE EXPLOSION AND ENSUANT BALL OF FIRE.
PRYING ROCK FRO4 SCREEN CONVEYOR, PLATFORM WAS FROSTY IN SOME PARTS AND HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO GROUND. FRACTURED RIGHT WRIST, SURGERY AND PINS INSERTED. Y AND PINS INSE9TED.
NO KNOWN WORK C2NDITIONS CONTRIBUTED TO EMPLOYEES HEART ATTACK. TO EMPLOYERS KNOWLEDGE, EMPLOYEE HAD NO PREVIOUS HISTORY OF HEART TROUBLE.
REMOVING GEARBO3 FROM CRUSHER CAUGHT FINGER IN PULLER AVULSION OF SKIN FROM TIP OF RT RING FINGER
INDEPENDENT ELE7TRICAL CONTRACTOR WORKING ON FUSE BOX OF CRUSHER DIDNT DROP MINA LOCKOUT AND BOX EXPLODED BURNING HIS STOMACH NECK LOWER CHIN BOTH HANDS AND FOREARMS AREA OF OCCURRENCE HAD SEV ERAL SEVERE EL9CTRICAL STORMS IN THE PRECEDING 5 DAY PERIOD
TIGHTENING BACK1LATE OF CRUSHER SCREEN WITH A RATCHET. RATCHET BROKE, STRIKING HAND AND SMASHING RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.
WELDING ON MATE9IAL CONVEYOR FROM A PLATFORM ON A FORKLIFT AT A HGT. OF APX. 10-FT., LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO GROUND.