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Injured cut his finger on fencing while roof bolting. Injured received stitches on his finger making this a reportable incident.
Injured employee filed accident report on 3-21-14 stating that he had been cut on the back of his left hand while getting roof bolt supplies. He received 3 stitches to close the wound and had a severed tendon to his ring finger.
Injured was hanging cable and strained his shoulder. Injured reported incident on 01/16/2014.
Injured was chaining off a take-up roller when a clevis broke, allowing the roller to move and strike the injured employee on his left leg. This resulted in a Fractured Leg.
Injured was handling ziggy rails and cut his finger. This required stitches making this a reportable incident.
Injured was placing wire mesh on the roof bolter and cut tip of his right ring finger.
Injured was watering a set of batteries and a cell imploded and debris struck the injured person in the face and left eye. Injured sustained a scratch on his eye and received a prescription for his injury, making this a reportable incident.
Employee was putting in return idler and he dropped idler on hand and broke finger.
Injured was servicing a Dozer, when the grease hose he was using developed two pin holes. The pressure on the hose through the holes pentrated the skin on injured right hand, allowing grease to be injected under the skin. Injured was taken to local hospital and had the grease surgically removed.
Injured was packing I-beams for undercast, cutting his arm on the corner of the beam. The injured received stitches for the laceration making this a reportable incident.
Injured was attempting to catch a 100-ton jack as it was falling off a pallet. Jack struck the injured's middle finger of his right hand.
Injured claimed drill steel fell from the hole being drilled when attempting to add an extension steel. The steel struck the injured in the left ear causing a small laceration to the top of the ear which required stitches.
Injured had just returned to work on 01/09/2012 shift, from being off, was helping build a stopping and said he re-aggravated his back. The cause of injury is unknown still to this date, but injured has missed work after reporting that an injury had occurred making this a lost time accident.
Injured was building a stopping at the 107-XC of the Main South 2, as she was building the stopping she placed a concrete block next to a mandoor and smashed her right Pinky finger. Injured received 4 stitches, making this a reportable incident.
Injured was attempting to throw a rock under the catts of the miner, lost grip and rock smashed middle finger on left hand. Injured was taken to hospital and x-rays revealed a fracture of the finger.
Injured was building a stopping, when he cut his finger on a block. Injured received 3 stitches on his finger.
Injured was checking his cable reel on the #4 Shuttle car at the start of his work shift. As he was checking his cable, he was holding the lid open with his left hand, the lid slipped out of his hand striking his right index finger on the very tip. This caused a small fracture on the tip of his finger.
On 11/08/2010 injured was placing a spool of cable on top of a undercast, when he strained his right shoulder. Injured continued working and the strain seemed to get worse. Injured went to a orthopedic surgeon on 12/10/2010 and had a surgical procedure to repair a tendon, making this a reportable incident.
Injured was taking the top off of a plaster bucket, after removal of the top placed on ground and some of the contents splattered up into injured left eye. Eye was washed out at mine site, and injured was taken to medical facility were eye was flushed out and a prescription was given for his eye, making this a reportable accident.
Employee was carrying cribbing for a crane pad on his shoulder. When he began to throw it on the ground, he felt a sharp pain in his low back. NOTE: Late report because I thought I had already reported it to MSHA, but upon review of the file, found no copy of the report.
While filling a torch cylinder, hose coupler broke and metal fragment cut workers arm.
Employee rolled a piece of steel off a boom truck and a piece of the cribbing 4" x 4" x 8' fell out and struck him in the left arm causing a bruise. No fracture but prescription medication given for pain from bruise.
EE was working on the bottom deck of the work deck during clean-up after concrete pour when the rope broke and the concrete pour chute struck EE on left, front shin causing a laceration that required stitches.
EE was lifting a concrete pour chute, when he strained his right shoulder.
Injured was hanging Ventialtion Tubing, when he picked up a piece of the tubing it cut through his glove, cutting his middle finger on his right hand. He was taken to local hospital and received stitches.
EE was standing below the support beam while another EE was impacting loose bolts on support beam, when the air line pulled loose and the air hose fitting struck the IE on the face above the lip, causing a laceration that required stitches and loose tooth.