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Employee was pulling screen from equipment when screen slipped and hit employee in right side. Employee heard popping sound. Nothing broken, just bruising.
While cleaning up spilled floc material employee slipped and fell onto 6 inch supply pipe that was crossing the slab, injuring tailbone. Bad bruise only. No breaks or other injury.
When lifting bundle plate steel it slipped off forks of skid steer striking my hand tearing a hole in glove cutting hand.
EE was helping with rotex screens and lost balance and strained back.
Employee apparently suffered a lower lumbar strain to the back while shoveling. Employee did not report the injury to mine management until the next morning when EE called in.
EE was helping unload material from a semi-trailer. EE went to pick up some dunnage used as spacers for the materials and it was nailed together so ee pulled up hard and the nails gave way easily and the 2X4 hit ee in the lip. EE cut lip, so ee went to the doctor and received 3 stitches. There was no lost time or restrictions put on ee. EE healed nicely.
The injured employee's right hand was caught between the pinch point of a conveyor structure and an idler. A laceration was received from the incident. The laceration required (2) two sutures. NOTE: Employee's employment was terminated following a post incident drug screen. Contact the employer for further information.
An employee was standing next to a load of 3 26'x 24"x6" I-Beams while a forklift was trying to reposition them away from the stack., one beam started to fall and the employee reached out to stop it, pinching finger between the beams. The injury caused a fracture and laceration to the tip of left middle finger.