WIND CAME UP GOT DIRT IN EYE (L)
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Showing all 11STANDING TIMBER QUIRT SLIPPED OFF POST FALLING STRIKING EE ON RIGHT FOOT.
DROPED LITTLE STEEL DOOR ON LITTLE FINGER LEFT HAND.
DRILLING POPS FOR TIMBER. ROCK FELL DOWN HITTING MINER ON FOOT.
BARING DOWN AND ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT ELBOW.
CLEANING DOWN RIBS READY TO PUT TIMBER AND ROCK FELL OUT OF BACK HITTING EE IN THE HARD HAT.
MUCKER BUCKET CAUGHT ON RIB LEFT SIDE PINNING EE BETWEEN MUCKER & RIB
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PIECES OF PLASTIC ON THE TABLE SAW WHEN ONE OF THE CUT PIECES VIBRATED BACK INTO THE BLADE. THE PLASTIC WENT IN THE AIR STRIKING HIM IN THE CHIN.
EE WAS DRILLING WITH A JACKLEG, THE STEEL SHANKED. WEIGHT OF DRILL PULLED HIM INTO STEEL THAT SHANKED.
EE WAS WALKING THRU THE NO MAIN DOOR IN THE MILLBLDG AS HE WALKED IN THE WIND CAUGHT THE DOOR & BLEW IT OPEN, EE TURNED AROUND & ATTEMPTED TO CATCH THE DOOR HIS FOOT DID NOT PIVOT & HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE
DERRICK WAS AT 50% ANGLE. EE WAS IN THE DERRICK MAKING CONNECTION. HE WRAPPED HIS ARM AROUND DRILL PIPE TO LIFT IT UP WHILE THE TOP HEAD WAS ROTATING. IT CROSS THREADED AND CAUGHT HIS COVERALL S IN THE DRILL PIPE AND BROKE HIS ARM. DRILLER IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN DRILL RIG BEFORE ANY OTHER INJURY COULD OCCUR.