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Employee was setting up a conveyor when the landing leg fell on EE's foot causing a fractured bone.
INSTALLING A SCREEN AT OUR WASH PLANT WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND AS THEY WERE SETTING IT INTO PLACE THE OTHER EMPLOYEE PUSHED ON THE SCREEN AND PINCHED THE HAND TO THE PLANT CAUSING A LACERATION THE REQUIRED STITCHES.
Employee was repositioning blocking under the crusher and another piece of blocking settled into the ground. As a result, they pinched fingers between the blocking and the landing gear. Employee received stitches on the left middle finger.
Conditions contributing are high step to a ladder of a rock truck. Injury appears to be an OD effecting the (L) Sciatica.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT TAIL PULLEY ON CRUSHER WHEN ROCK STRUCK HIS HEAD. ALTHOUGH EMPLOYEE WAS ISSUED HARD HAT THAT INSTRUCTED TO ALWAYS WEARIT, HE FAILED TO WEAR HARD HAT AT TIME OF ACCIDE NT.
WHILE SEPARATING CRUSHER SCREENS & RESTACKING THEM, BENT OVER TO PULL THEM APART--FELT STRIAN IN LOWER BACK.