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2 EMP WERE CONDUCTING MAINTENANCE ON A CRANK START 4" WATER PUMP.WHILE EMP #1 WAS KNEELING AND OBSERVING SPARK PLUG EMP #2 WAS CRANKING THE ENGINE.THE HAND CRANK SLIPPED AND IMPACTED AGAINST E
I NAME ON OR ABOUT 0730AM 29 JUNE 89 WAS IN THE PR OCESS OF MOVING HIS BAR UPHILL WHEN HIS PRY BAR SLIPPED & CAUSED SEVERE TENSION ON HIS BACK
EMPL MOVING DRILL BAR BY PRYING ONE END AND THEN THE OTHER.KNEW IT WAS NEAR END OF SHIFT AND HE TRIED USING UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF FORCE TWISTING -HIS BACK WAS INJURED.
EMPL DECIDED TO INSPECT SIDE OF LEGE HE JUM ED DOWN TO IRREGULAR SUFACE NEAR EDGE OF LEDGE SLIPPED OFF EDGE & FELL SLIDING ABOUT 8' TO 10' TRYING TO BREAK HIS FALL HE SPRAINED HIS THUMB.
FOREMAN STOOD NEAR BLOCK OF GRANITE WHEN LOADER PROCEEDED TO PICK UP ANOTHER NEAR BY BLOCK, IT MOVED AND PUSHED THE FIRST BLOCK ON TO THE FOREMAN'S FOOT PINCHING IT.
AIR SUPPLY HOSE TO ONE OF TWO DRILL MACHINES BROKE STRIKING IPERATOR ON HEAD IMPACT KNOCKED OPERATOR TO GROUND BHUT DID NOT RENDER HIM UNCONSCIOUS SAFETY WHIP CHECKS WERE IN PLACE HOWEVER ENT IRE ELBOW CAME LOOSE WHEN INTRIOR RETENTION RING BROKE INSIDE DRILL WHIP CHECK AROUND ELBOW