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A small piece of metal left over from cutting a pipe with a bandsaw was left deposited on my sweatshirt. When I took off the shirt, a piece of metal got in my eye. An eye doctor removed the piece on 5/1/2021 and I am back to normal.
Installing a heavy drive shaft on dredge. Employee set drive shaft down to reposition employee's body and the U-joint pivoted and pinched the tip of employee's finger. Fracture to the tip of left hand ring finger and contusion under fingernail.
Miner was greasing a dewatering screw when elbow locked up & miner felt a pop in the joint. Miner did not report incident to management until 6/3/16 and did not seek medical treatment until 6/7/16. Miner was referred to another doctor on 6/21/16. We currently do not know the extent or cause of the injury but the miner is still working under light restrictions.
Moving a large tool chest and needed to slide it over, pushed against it with the right shoulder and arm and strained a muscle on the right side of the body.
EE said he was pulling and lifting on screen retainer to slide retainer out of the way so they could replace screen.
Just moving a battery from one spot to another & felt a pop in left shoulder.