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I was pulling frozen pipe out of the ground or pulling on the hose while loading. (repetitive motions) and I felt a slight discomfort in my forearm. The next day I noticed to be much sorer and more fatigued than normal in my arm and after the shift I noticed a lump/ball on my forearm the size of almost two gumballs.
Miner was placing scrap in recently emptied dumpster while wearing hand protection when EE smashed their right thumb. EE's fingernail became loose and EE's thumb looked split.
A tail pulley guard was being removed to perform maintenance. The guard was stuck in place due to frozen dirt. The team removed what they could of the frozen material using force to remove the guard the rest of the way. As the guard became free, EE's thumb was caught between the guard and the frame. There was reason to believe EE may have broken EEs left thumb.
While installing a new starter on an excavator, the miner who had been in a kneeling position went to stand up to align the part into position on the excavator. While standing up the miner felt a pop in EE's left knee.
Miner pinched abdomen between a conveyor and a support board while repairing clips on the conveyor.
EE was lifting oak block to block up crane when a large splinter lodged into left hand on palm below index finger. EE removed what they thought was the entire splinter. Next day, their hand had become swollen, red and painful.
EE was grinding metal parts in garage. When completed, EE was opening/lifting garage door when EE felt immediate pain in left shoulder.
EE was installing new set of 48" idlers on conveyor. Bar in the idler slipped and came down and caught EE's thumb between idler and steel frame of conveyor.
Removing broken drill steel from machine. Each steel weighs about 100 lbs. Loaded 3 steel drills on truck. Felt pain by end of day.
While moving a stone a second stone fell on top of first stone cutting right hand thumb.
Clamp slipped on plate, which fell on leg and sprained ankle. Plate was being welded in body of haul truck.
Employee was disconnecting lifting equipment from a load that was sitting on blocks, cable and shackle were slack, blocks kicked out from under the load, causing the cable to tighten, catching the left ring finger betweeen shackle and cable.
One employee was removing clamp from spring bar on screen tower. He dropped one-half of the clamp. The clamp hit the catwalk and fell through hitting two employees on the head.
CLIMBING ONTO DRILL STRUCK SHIN ON RUNG.
A HOPPER GRATE RAIL BECAME DISLODGED. EE ATTEMPTED TO PUT BACK IN PLACE AND HIS FINGER WAS PINCHED AS IT SLID BACK INTO PLACE.
THERE WAS A LOG JAM OF ROCKS ON TOP OF THE GRATEOVER THE HOPPER THAT FEEDS THE PLANT. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO DISLODGE SOME OF THEM, A STONE FELL THROUGH THE GRATE BENDING HIS RIGHT FOOT OVER TH E RAIL. A SPRAINED FOOT WAS THE RESULT.