Employee placed the air gun on the walk-way and as he started up the ladder, the air hose broke off and hit him in the face.
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Showing all 3While employee was greasing the bearing on the rotor of the crusher, he turned it too far thereby catching his middle finger between the blow bar and side of crusher. This resulted in a severed middle finger from the 1st knuckle to tip of finger.
Employee & co-worker were pounding a post. As the post pounder was coming up, his hand struck an object causing laceration. 6 stitches were administered.