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Luminant mechanic was using an impact wrench to loosen a bolt overhead while working on a railcar and received a foreign object in their eye. Was evaluated off-site by medical professional to have object removed and received a prescription.

Employee was drilling 1-5/8" holes and when in the process of changing out the drill bits, the head released and pinned EE's Right-Hand little fingertip between the Jacobs chuck and the plate EE was drilling. This caused a partial amputation of the Right-Hand little fingertip.

Employee was grinding overhead and when they removed their hardhat and face shield some metal particles fell into their right eye.

Employee was power washing a piece of heavy equipment in the wash bay and slipped on the pavement that resulted in a fracture of their right ankle.

Hydraulic ram was placed on a lug mounted to the side of the dragline. The ram slid off the lug. The safety line attached to the ram caused it to swing and contact EE's left hand.

While brush cutting with tractor and 15 foot brush cutter operator hit an unseen rock which was propelled from the cutter through the back glass of tractor striking the operator on the right side of head causing a laceration. Operator was transported to clinic where laceration was stapled shut.

A contractor employee dropped a 1" impact approximately 2' to 3' and struck a Luminant employee on the lower left side of EE's back, just under the bottom rib. Physician performed x-ray with negative results. Employee was released to work with restrictions.

Employee was air gouging to remove the wear plate from a D9 dozer's blade. As employee was making the last cut, the stored energy released the top of the plate and it struck the employee on the right shoulder causing them to lose balance and fall/ Hard hat came off and head struck the new wear plate which was staged nearby. Employee has 5 years mining experience.

EE was drilling holes in a dragline swing case seal so it could be removed. In the process,felt something in left eye and tried to wash it out. EE was transported to the ER. Next day EE was seen by a eye specialist to remove a small piece of metal from the eye, a prescription was given for pain/eye drops and EE was instructed not to return to work for at least 24 hrs.

Fans were turned on inside the D-35 dragline machinery house after a 4 day outage. The fans caused dirt/debris to enter the right eye of a mechanic who was working near the #1 swing. EE did have safety glasses on. EE didn't report the event until 11/6/2017 as eye continued to worsen. EE received prescription eye drops from the injury.

Mechanic was trying to cut a 3" rod bolt off that was stuck. Was using a portable saw and had made two cuts. The saw blade caught and kicked the saw back cutting thru the glove cut left ring finger at the first joint. 3 stitches were applied. No restrictions. All PPE was properly being used-Face Shield, Gloves and hearing protection. Saw had all safety devices in place.

Carrier retainer bolts on 8750 dragline were being removed with a 1" air impact and a 2" socket. 2 or 3 bolts had been removed and on the next bolt the socket broke into 2 pieces. Part of the socket contacted left wrist, EE didn't release the impact and it torqued EE's right elbow. Restrictions were issued by Dr. and this became recordable and lost time.

EE WAS GRINDING AND WELDING ON SWING GEAR ON DRAGLINE. EYE BEGAN BOTHERING HIM SEVERAL HOURS AFTER HE WENT HOME. REPORTED INJUGY THE NEXT DAY. FOREMAN SPOTTED METAL IN THE LEFT EYE AND TOOK EE TO THE DR. DR SAID THAT THERE WAS METAL AND POSSILBY SLAG IN THE LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ARCHING AND GRINDING ON LIP OF #10 BUCKET. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND GRINDING SHIELD. HE GOPT METAL FRAGMENTS IN RIGHT EYE.THERE WAS RUST AROUND THE METAL PARTICLES. FRAGMENTS HAD TO BE EXTRACTED.

EE STATED HE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT EYE WHILE GRINDING WITH A GRINDER. HE STATED HE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND FACE SHIELD.

WHILE GRINDING OVER HEAD A SMALL METAL PARTICLE LODGED IN THE LEFT EYE.

DRILLER WAS STANDING ON DRILL RIG. WELL CASING WAS POISED ABOVE HOLE READY FOR INSERTION. THE OPEN HOOK, AND TWENTY FOOT SECTION CAME LOOSE. WELL CASING FELL TOWARD RIG AND HIT DIRLLER ON TO P OF HEAD. DRILLER WAS WEARING HARD HAT AND GOGGLES.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING OVERHEAD WHEN THE GRINDER HIT A ROUGH EDGE AND KICKED BACK HITTING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.

20-30 MPH WINDS WHILE SETTING PILE WITH PILEDRIVER HAMMER. OPERATOR THOUGHT LIFTING PAWL WAS ENGAGED, IT WAS NOT. WHILE BOOMING CRANE UP, TO BRING LEADS AND HAMMER INTO PLUMB, THE HAMMER CAME OFF THE FOLLOWER. THE FOLLOWER, HAMMER, AND LEADSWUNG BACK TOWARD CRANE. THE OPERATOR LEAPED FROM CRANE INJURING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS USING A TIRE TRUCK TO CHANGE AN END DUMP TIRE. WHEN HE REMOVED THE LUG NUTS, THE RETAINING WEDGE POPPED OUT AND HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD RESUTLTING IN NO BRUISES AND SOME S WELLING. A DR. ON A VISIT ON 3-30-99 PLACED HIM ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

OPERATOR OF BACKHOE HASTILY DISMOUNTED THE BAKCHOE (SONSCIOUSLY BELIEVING HIS BUCKET WAS FULLY LOWERED RESTING ON THE XTIES FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT) INADVERTENTLY BUMPED THE BOOM LEVER CAUSING THE BOOM AND BUCKET TO DROP APPROX. AN ADDITIONAL 4" CATCHING THE FINGERS OF INJURED EE UNDERNEATH. FRACTURED MIDDLE FINGER AND SMASHED RING FINGER.

EE WAS SMOTHING THE HIGHWALL SIDE OF THE PIT FOR THE HAULERS WHEN A LARGE SECTION OF THE HIGHWALL FELL ON THE DOZER HE WAS OPERATING. EE RECEIVED A COMPRESSION INJURY TO THE 4TH AND 5TH VERTEB RAS.

EE WAS SPINNING MOTOR ON HOIST HOOK TO GET IT THROUGH A NARROW AREA WHEN THE MOTOR SUDDENLY MOVED, PINCHING FINGER BETWEEN IT AND THE #3 HOIST MOTOR. RESULTED IN STITCHES AND CRACKED BONE, LAS T JOINT OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

THE INJURED WAS GRINDING ON A 10" PIECE OF PIPE AND A TINY PIECE OF METAL GOT INTO HIS EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING A TRUCK WITH A HIGH-PRESSURE WASHER WHEN A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATTER ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS TRAVELING DOWN A HAUL ROAD IN A CAT 660 SCRAPER. EMPLOYEE DROVE OVER A AREA THAT HE JUST BEEN WATERED BY THE WATER WAGON, SCRAPER JACKKNIFED TO BOTH SIDES BEFORE STOPPING CAUSING LOWER BACK STRAIN TO EMPLOYEE. EE REPORTED TO FIRST AID 10-21-98. EE WENT TO DR. 10-29-98 RESTRICTED DUTY. EE WENT TO CHIRPORACTOR 11-2-98 AND HE PUT EE ON NO DUTY.

EE WAS CUTTING REVAR WITH CUTTING TORCH. REBAR WAS IN A BIND, AND WHEN CUT IN TWO, IT CAME AROUND AND HIT EE'S LEFT KNEE INSIDE AND DOWN ABOUT TWO INCHES, MAKING ABOUT A 3/4 INCH DEEP CUT. STI TCHES REQUIRED.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEAM CLEANING A CATERPILLAR SCRAPER. AS HE WAS MOVING AROUND THE WASHING WAND WAS INADVERTENTLY DISCHARGED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE BACK SIDE OF HIS LEFT HAND. THE DISCHA RGE OF SPRAY CUT THROUGH THE TOP OF THE GLOVE AND THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A LACERATION, MINOR BURN AND INJECTION OF SOAPY WATER.

WHILE MAKING A CUT A CAT660 SCRAPER IN BORROW AREA-THE OPERATOR STUCK THE SCRAPER PAN-PUSH CATOPERATOR APPROACED THE SCRAPER FROM BEHIND TO PUSH & SCRAPER OPERATOR STATES IT JARRED HIS NECK PUSH CAT OPERATOR DENIES HITTING HIM VERY HARD STRAIN MAY HAVE BEEN ACCUMALATIVE

EE STRUCK BY LIFTING LUG WHEN WELD BROKE. LUG ATTACHED TO A WIRE CHOKER ON OVERHEAD CRANE.

EE WAS REINSTALLING THE TRACK ON 21106 DOZER. A 1/4" CHAIN WAS HOOKED TO THE TRACK RAILS. A SECOND 1/4" CHAIN WAS HOOKED INTO THE FIRST CHAIN AND WRAPPED AROUND THE DOZER FINAL DRIVE. THE DOZE R FINAL DRIVE WAS PULLING THE TRACK UNDERNEATH THE DOZER ROLLERS AND INTO POSITION. THE TRACK GOT HUNG ON A ROLLER, CAUSING THE FIRST CHAIN TO RREAK AND SECOND CHAIN WHIPPED BACK AND THE HOOK

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING DUMP ROPE AT 16002 DRAGLINE, WHILE CUTTING ROPE A PIECE OF MOLTEN METAL FELL ON ACETYLENE HOSE BURNING A HOLE IN HOSE. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED SECOND DEGREE BURNS ON LOWER PART OF ABODOMEN AREA ABOUT THE SIZE OF YOUR HAND.

EE STATED THAT HE BACKED OVER A ROUGH AREA WILTH HIS DOZER & JARRED HIS BACK.

SCRAPER WAS GOING THROUGH THE CUT WHEN IT RAN OVER A LARGE CLOD OF MATERIAL AND THE SCRAPER JERKED FROM SIDE TO SIDE WHEN THE FRONT TIRE CAME OFF THE CLOD.

EE WAS BLOWING DIRT OFF THE SPILLAGE BELT AT THE CROSS PIT SPREADER. EE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS LEFT EYE AND HE IRRIGATED HIS EYE. THE NEXT DAY, HIS EYE BECAME IRRITATED AND EE WAS TAKEN TO CLIN IC WHERE EE REC'D. A RX BUT NOT RESTRICTED DUTY.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE HURT HIS BACK WHEN HE WAS BLADING THE BOTTOM SEAM OF COAL AND THE BLADE CAUGHT ROUGH SEAM OF COAL AND JERKED MACHINE.

EE WAS OPERATING 21099 DOZDR, RIPPING PARTING FOR SCRAPERS. WHEN BACKING HIS DOZER, HE RAN OVER A LARGE PIECE OF PARTING WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST & INJURE HIS BACK.

SET HAND WAS TRIMMING IN OPEN AREA. HE WAS WEARING ALL SAFETY GEAR,I.E, HARD HAT, SFETY GLASSES, STEEL TOED BOOTS,SAW CHAPS. THE TIP OF A CHAINSAW PENETRTED A LIMB AND KICKED INTO THE SETHANDS LEG. THE CHAIN PULLED THE CHAPS UPWARDS CUTTINGTHE SHIN BETWEEN THE CHAPS AND THE TOP OF HIS OOT ON THE LEFT LEG. THERE WAS A APPROX. CUT & 3" CUT REQUIRING 12 STAPLES.

EMPLOYEE ON 11-10-97 THAT HE HAD RECIEVED A SLIVER OF METAL IN HIS EYE WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF TIN WITH A DIE GRINDER.

SCRAPER WAS TURNING TO LINE UP FOR THE CUT WHEN THE FRONT WHEEL WENT IN A HOLE AND THEN THE DOZER CAME UP FROM BEHIND, RAMMING THE BACK OF THE SCRAPER.

EVADING SWARMING BUMBLE BEES DURING TREE CLEARING WITH A DOZER. WHILE BACKING UP DOZER HIT A STUMP THAT CAUSED DOZER TO CREATE A SEVERE JAR IN LOWER BACK OF EE.

EE WAS WELDING BESIDE ANOTHER EE WHEN A WELDING BUCKSHOT WENT IN BEHIND THE WELDING HOOD AND SAFETY GLASSES INTO LEFT EYE.

EE WAS GRINDING WITH A 4" GRINDER WHEN THE GRINDING WHEEL DISINTEGRATED AND PARTICLES FLEW BEHIND HIS WELDING HOOD AND SAFETY GLASSES INTO RIGHT EYE.

INJURED WAS BLADING ROADS FOR SCRAPERS. HIS MOTORGRADER GOT STUCK ON RAMP GOING UP TO SCRAPER CUT. SCRAPER CAME UP BEHIND HIM TO PUSH HIM UP. WHEN THEY GOT TO THE TOP, THE RIPPERS ON THE MOTOR GRADER HAD HUNG ON THE PUSH BLOCK OF THE SCRAPER. THE SCRAPER OPERATOR TURNED THE SCRAPER TO TRY AND FREE TH RIPPERS, IT DID FREE THEM, CAUSING MOTORGRADER TO DROP JARRING OPERATOR- LWR BACK.

EE WAS WELDING IN REVOLVING FRAME. A BULL GEAR WAS DROPPED ON THE HOUSE MACHINE FLOOR. EE JUMPED AND BUMPED HIS ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS INSTALLING NUTS ON A SWING ASSEMBLY WHEN HE STRAINED THE TENDONS IN HIS LEFT ELBOW.

NOT PAYING PROPER ATTENTION TO HIS ACITIVITIES AT THE TIME HE WAS PERFORMING TASK. DID NOT NOTICE THAT SUSPENSION LINK WAS SUSPENDED BY ONE PIN LAYING ON TOP OF ANOTHER WHEN HE KNOCKED IT OFF , AND OT NOTICING THAT HIS FOOT WAS DIRECTLY UNDER LINK.

EE STATED THAT HE HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE SHIFT PANEL WHILE TURNING TO LOOD BACK AT HIS PATHWAY.

EMPLOYEE BACKED INTO A SMALL HOLE WITH HIS DOZER. HE STATED HE JARRED HIS BACK.

TWO EES WERE WETTING UP PUMP IN L-AREA PIT. IT WAS RAINING. EE WAS LOWERING THE SUCTION LINE ON BARGE. HE RELEASE THE CHAIN THAT HOLDS THE WINCH HANDLE. THE WEIGHT OF THE SUCTION LINE CAUSED T HE WINCH HANDLE TO SPIN; STRIKING EE IN THE HAND. CUT ON BACK SIDE OF THE LEFT HAND. SWELLING AND NUMBNESS IN THE HAND.