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EE was in process of cleaning up job site from winter maintenance. Placing pieces of angle iron when left thumb came in contact with a steel burr on the angle iron. Thumb laceration.
Employee was transferring 55-gal drums from dredge to the boat. They fell on top of the barrel cutting their face, requiring stitches and injured their leg
Employee was lifting heavy parts while rebuilding a dredge pump. No contributing conditions.
Employee was straddled on top of washer, washing the screw out. He called twice to man below to start the screw. Leg caught in the screw. Broken and lacerated leg below the knee.
Removing coupler from motor shaft with an impact gun, put wrench on with impact gun & when the bolt broke loose the wrench spun around hitting EE's hand causing lacerations.
Employee doing maint/ welding; chipping weld and a piece of slag went into eye.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UNDER SCALES USING POWER WASHER. LAID DOWN WAND TO USE SHOVEL AND PICKED UP WAND ON POWER WASHER WITH RIGHT HAND. FINGERS HIT TRIGGER CAUSING WAND TO GO OUT OF CONTROL. TRIED TO GRAB WAND WITH LEFT HAND AND SPRAY FROM WAND HIT LEFT HAND INDEX FINGER CAUSING CUT AND FRACTURE OF INDEX FINGER.
EE WAS USING HAMMER TO KNOCK OFF FROZEN MATERIAL FROM CONVEYOR AT GROUND & HIT HIS RIGHT HAND WITH HAMMER.