Portage Operation Metal/Non-Metal

Installing conveyor. Pinched right ring finger between conveyor and another metal piece. Laceration of tip of right ring finger.

Employee was helping remove ceiling tiles in bathroom. At break time, employee removed ppe and sweatshirt when something entered eye.

Injured was rotating driven pulley by hand in order to distribute lubricant when EE's finger became pinched between the rpm sensor and the rpm pickup point.

Injured had just finished using a die grinder when EE felt foreign material in left eye.

Injured was cleaning with a skid steer when a piece of material fell causing small debris to enter his eye.

Injured was changing a bearing on a bucket elevator when wind blew metal dust into his eyes.

Injured was installing sensor system in building. He was turning a conduit body onto the base of a red warning light and heard a pop in his right hand.

Terminating cables on load side of de-energized breaker, cable made contact with energized bus detail on breaker located directly above, causing arc flash and burning ee hands.

While chipping the welds on a steel fabrication, a metal particle must have gotten around the safety glasses and into his eye. Employee did not have any issues with his eye until he woke up the next morning. Injury was determined to be MSHA reportable because the doctor prescribed medicated eye drops.

Injured employee accidently turned on portable grinder and his left thumb came in contact with the turning grinding disc.

THE INJURED EE WAS EMPTYING THE WHEEL BARROW OF FROZEN LIMESTONE FINES. AS HE WAS EMPTYING THE WHEEL BARROW, MATERIAL WAS FROZEN TO THE WHEEL BARROW CAUSING THE WHEEL BARROW TO ROTATE BACK AND STRIKE HIS LEFT THUMB.