Dry plant crew was in the process of reassembling the exhaust fan on bag house 3. After performing lockout, tagout, tryout; the belt was manually turned to diagnose an issue. When the belt was moving, the employee grabbed the moving belt by hand causing employee's fingers to be pulled in between the belt and sheave.
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Showing all 3Employee was filling an 8' water tank and was standing on the 3rd rung of the ladder to pull the hose from the top of the tank. Weight shifted and while trying to catch themselves, they fell backwards on their back. Contributing factors are, the employee placed the ladder on uneven ground and the ladder was also not tied off.
Employee was moving sheet metal from one conex to another. As they placed a piece of metal on the stack and pushed for it to be in place, hand slipped. The sheet metal caught the corner of cut resistant glove, tore it, and also made contact with left pinky causing a cut.