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Miner was closing a valve and their hand slipped as they were tightening the valve. Miner lost balance and they attempted to catch themselves as they fell. Miner injured their left elbow when they fell.
Employees where changing cloth on Mud Press. The mud press plate dropped on IE's left hand.
While installing drive shaft into loader, drive shaft slipped and smashed middle finger on right hand.
Employee was removing heavy part (u joint) from under loader. Once removed, it slipped from employees hand and fell to the ground pinching their finger between the part and the floor.
Placing punch plate in place, plate slipped and smashed left ring finger between screen and boot. 6 stitches were received at Enumclaw ER. IE was immediately released to return to work.
Had just completed using electrical testing rod. Stood up. Went to put on hard hat with rod still in hand. Rod went under safety glasses and poked eye.
A snap ring was coming off of a radial stacker tire. The employee was trying to repair/reset the snap ring when it popped off the tire, hitting the employee in the right ring finger. The employee needed stitches for the laceration on his finger
Strained his lower back when lifting a piece of a machine. Employee did not report this accident officially or visit to doctor. We were made aware of his trip to the doc on 9/2/11 when we received workers comp information from L&I. Employment was termed for unrelated issues on 8/17/11, employee saw doc for first time on 8/20/11. No return to work due to layoff, not injury.
While removing bearing on the head pulley of the feeder belt a piece of steel splintered off and lacerated employee's left forearm.
working in shop, removing spacer on piece of equipment being worked on, top rail slipped, upper piece slipped smashing third and fourth finger on left hand
While employee was lowering a lift cylinder onto a loader, employee tried to line up the cylinder. His finger got caught/smashed between the cylinder and the loader. No property damage, could lose a portion on his right ring finger.
Employee dropped a 4 foot long piece of metal on top of left foot. Did not go to the doctor at the time. Went to doctor the next day, no treatment given. Continued to hurt, went back to doctor, off work from 12/3/06 to 12/6/06, back to work 12-6-06 went on light duty til 2/6/06, then off work til 2/26/07, then back full time