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Drill operator pinched EE's finger between a drill hammer and a rock while picking up the hammer off the ground, and subsequently received stitches and a minor tuft fracture on the finger tip.
2 Employees were lifting a 2 ½ foot piece of 10inch HDPE into a metal dumpster and one of the employees pinched their left pinky finger between the pipe and the rim of the dumpster resulting in a laceration.
Employee was assisting with installing screw conveyor. As they reached to position the end of the conveyor, they positioned their hand between column and conveyor pinching the right middle finger resulting in avulsion requiring sutures.
Employee alleges while attempting to move a chain fall that the chain while in their hand struck their left side of their face. Incident is still under investigation.
Employee was installing cathodes into cell tanks, Cathode got hung up, employee tried to move Cathode by hand resulting in smashing EE's finger in a pinch point. Employee had Laceration on EE's left middle finger. Employee was taken to emergency room and was given a numbing medicine and stitches.
Employee was straddling a 16" HDPE pipe while tightening the bolts around the valve flange when the pipe slipped off the cribbing pinching the employee's right leg between the pipe employee was straddling and another 16" HDPE pipe.
EE was landing an approx. 7' diameter pump back plate that weighs approx. 3000 lbs. The employees were trying to lean it against a column. EE had EE's fingers in between the column and the pump plate. When the pump plate came against the column it pinched EE's fingers between the column and the pump plate, severing the very tips of EE's left ring and middle fingers.
while closing a barb wire perimeter gate, part of the closing mechanism slipped on the post causing hand to contact top strand of barb wire causing a wound to middle knuckle. Miner received a tetanus shot.
As miner was lifting a portable generator with an assistant she positioned her body incorrectly and as a result strained her back.
Miner was connecting 2" pipe together when he turned to reach behind him to get a vice clamp. As he turned he struck a piece of 9 wire hooked to a bolt plate on the rib. The 9 wire lacerated his upper right eyelid. The employee had safety glasses at the time of the accident but was not wearing them.
Miner was chipping and cleaning around cribbing with spud wrench when water splashed under his safety glasses into his left eye. Water irritated eye.
Drilling with a jackleg in the back, pulled back and steel puller let go of steel. Machine fell and miner tried to stop it from falling resulting in a strained shoulder.
Geotech was performing routine core lab duties during most of the shift. Late in the shift the geotech felt pain in the back. Geotech went to ER after shift and was told to remain off work due to a back injury.
Miner received cement burns to right ankle when cement saturated water leaked through a hole in his boot.