EMPLOYEE WAS HITTING ON A PIPE TO FREE CLOG WHEN HAMMER HIT RIGHT THUMB.
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Showing all 9EE WAS DECINDING ON A LADDER, SLIPPED ON GREASE AND IMPACTED RIGHT KNEE ON STEEL RUNG OF LADDER. KNEE SWOLLEN AFTER EE AWOKE THE NEXT DAY.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR WAS IN THE PROCESS OF SPRAYING PRIMER/ADHESIVE INSIDE OF BALL MILL WHEN FUMES FLASHED, RESULTING IN BURNS ON HIS BACK, CHEST AND FACE.
EE WAS CLEANING ROLLER BEARINGS WITH SOLVENT AND TRIED TO USE COMPRESSED AIR TO BLOW DRY BEARINGS LOOPED OVER SCREW DRIVER. BEARING FLEW APART AND HIT EE ABOVE HIS RIGHT EYE CUTTING SKIN.
EMPLOYEE REACHED UNDER A SUPERSTACK WHILE FORKLIFT WAS LOWERING THE BAY BY ITS STRAPS ONTO A STEEL SUPPORT FRAME TO EMPTY MATERIAL AND HAND WAS MASHED BETWEEN SUPPORT AND SUPERSTACK.
EE WAS RAKING MATERIAL INTO THE BOTTOM OF BUCKETELEVATOR WHEN FINGER BECAME MASHED BETWEEN MOVING PLASTIC BUCKET & ELEVATOR.
AT END OF SHIFT EE NOTED SOME DISCOMFORT IN BACK AREA AFTER PALLETIZING 50# BAGS DURING THE SHIFT.
WHILE UNCOUPLING HOSES, EE WAS HIT IN THE MOUTH & CHIN WITH COUPLING, CAUSING IMPACT BETWEEN TEETH WHICH BROKE TWO [2] CROWNED FRONT TEETH & CHIPPED TWO [2] ADJACENT TEETH.
EMPLOYEE WAS PINCHED BETWEEN SHEET OF PLYWOOD BEING MOVED BY FORKLIFT & STATIONARY ELEVATOR. PINCH IN ABDOMEN AREA- TREATED BY DR. W/IN 2 HRS DIAGNOSED AS BRUISED ABDOMEN, NO OTHER SYMPTOMS.