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EE WAS STEAM CL9ANING FRONT END LOADER WITH RENTAL STEAM CLEANER WHEN HOSE BROKE DISCHARGING HOT STEAM ONTO LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN. VISUAL INSPECTION OF EQUIPMENT WAS MADE BY EE BEFORE USE OF CLE ANER. 3
REPLACING JOURN5LS BACK INTO MILL,1 JOURNAL KNOCKED AGAINST BULLRING AND PIECE OF STEEL CHIPPED OFF AND STRUCK EMPL IN THE SIDE.
USING HAMMER AN8 PUNCH TO SET BEARING ON SHAFT WHEN PIECE OF PUNCH BROKE OFF AND HIT WRIST.
SACKING CONVEYO9 HAS SACK SLIDE PLATE WHERE MATERIAL (SACK) IS DISCHARGED FROM EMP REACHED FOR SACK 24 INCHES BEYOND THE NORMAL DISCHARGE POINT WHEN RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH P PINCHPOINT (THE3POINT WHERE CONVEYOR AND SLIDE PLATE MEET)
ON 7 23 85 AT 8 00 PM I NAME CALLED ME AT HOUMA OFFICE AND TOLD ME HE HAD SOMETHING IN HIS EYE HE STATED IT HAPPENED ON 7 22 85 WHEN I NAME WAS HAMMERING BATTERY CABLES BACK ONTO A BATTERY AN FRAGMENT OF METAL FLEW OFF IN I NAMES EYE HE W AS NOT WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES AS DIRECTED
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING GUARD ON BACK OF LOADER. (GUARDS BATTERIES & REFUELING CAP), PIN HINGES WERE WORN AND GUARD FELL WITH EMPLOYEES HAND AND FINGERS THROUGH GUARD. GUARD AND FINGERS STRUCK CO OUNTER WEIGHT OF LOADER. BRUISED RING AND MIDDLE FINGER AND 12 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED IN FINGERS.
I NAME WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO BACKSIDE OF A PALET OF MATERIAL BEING MOVED BY FORKLIFT OPER I NAME I NAME TOOK HIS FOOT OFF BRAKE BEFORE SHIFTING FROM FORW INTO REV CAUSING FORKLIFT TO GE GENTLY STRIKE I NAME LEFT ANKLE PAIN DID NOT DEV UNTIL FOLLOWING DAY
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SACKING BULK BARITE IN THE MORNING UPON BREAKING FOR LUNCH JEFF SAID HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE ATER RUBBING IT HE SAID THAT IT STARTED TO BOTHER HIM 2 SENT HIM TO THE COMP ANY DOCTOR TO INSURE EMPLOYEES SAFETY DOCTOR REMOVED FOREIGN BODY AND RETURNED JEFF TO WORK AT FULL CAPACITY
THREE EMP WERE LIFTING A 200 POUND WHIZZER GEAR DRIVE INTO PLACE UPON SETING DOWN JOSEPH HAND WAS UNDER UNIT PINCHED RING FINGER ON RT HAND NO BROKEN BONES BUT A FEW MINOR CUTS TO WHICH OINTM OINTMENT AND BANDAGE WAS APPLIED