[North Dakota]

One of the contractor's employees got hurt on my project by a flying Grease Zert. The had a small bobcat mini excavator with tracks. The track on one side kept coming off. To get the track back on you loosened a Zert one quarter turn which let a ram back up (the ram held the track tight) put the track back on and tighten.

I show up and the guy is laying there having a hard time breathing. He had been hit right on the boney sternum of his chest. He was alright later but had a bruise the size of a dinner plate. I asked what he had been doing and they told he was putting the tracks back on. I went over and looked at the machine and a right above the hole where zert was supposed to be was a big warning label that said do not loosen more then 1/4 turn serious injury or death may occur and showed a head siloutte with a chunk of head missing and a flying zert symbol that had obviously bounced off the head. There was dashed line showing the path of a flying zert from part to head.

The man was lucky it did not hit his eye, soft stomach, or head. What a fool. The label was not dirty or damaged and showed exactly what happened.