Lifting steel plates in to chutes for welding repair.
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Showing all 9Employee was lifting screen bearing; the bearing slipped and caught EE's hand between the bearing and the guard. The guard caused a cut on the palm of EE's hand requiring 5 stitches.
Employee was lifting a steel plate into place for welding. EE strained EE's Left Shoulder.
Inlet pipe to slurry pump slid while miner moving 4foot section of 12" polyethylene pipe, pipe pinched his hand between an electric motor and the pipe.
Reaming out 1" holes with a die grinder to 1 1/16". Metal face shield rim collected burrs and spilled out when lifted. Foreign object in left eye.
Loading scrap iron in container, two pieces struck together and a small chip of iron hit his chin.
Doing maintenance in chute on the bypass gate, weld broke struck right eye lid and cut it.
Unloading new trough rollers from the manlift basket, right thumb got caught between handrail & trough roller.
Hitting a return roller, metal or dust flew in right eye.