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Employees were working on a bearing on a belt scale and noticed a fish had come up through the plant and one of the employees went over to move it. When EE picked the fish up, one of the barbs stabbed EE's hand and when EE went to throw it, the barb broke off and got stuck in EE's hand.

The EE was respooling the dragline hoist cable. EE had set the wedge in place and was holding the cable. The cable slipped out of EE's hand and caught EE's right index finger between the wedge and the cable. This created a laceration to EE's finger requiring stitches. The EE was wearing leather gloves.

The EE was moving the swing cable to gain slack and make a connection to the anchor point, they tripped on uneven ground. The cable was in hands, waist level when they tripped. EE dropped it and caught themselves with their hands.The EE felt immediate pain in right shoulder. EE was taken to the doctor and prescribed pain medicine, muscle relaxers, and physical therapy.

The over the road gravel hauler was helping a coworker dump overloaded material near the scale house by letting the coworker know how much to dump. After dumping, employee reached hand in to latch the tailgate when hand got caught & lacerated requiring stitches. Employee did not realize it had an auto latch tailgate unlike employee's truck which has a manual latch.

The EE was attempting to remove cutting blades from the back of EE's truck, with mobile crane. EE had a pry bar in between the blades EE was holding the top blade up with right hand and trying to put strap around with left hand, EE had leather gloves on. The blade slid back and fell on left index and middle finger causing bruising, and swelling. No medical attention needed.

Employee was attempting to remove a large mud ball off the main feed belt. While removing the mud ball he suffered a lower back strain. He went directly to his immediate supervisor and notified him of the incident and was taken to Columbus ER where he was treated and released back to light duty which will cease 10/11/2015.

Employee (miner with 9 years experience) was loading an empty on road diesel tank onto a truck to be removed from site. While loading the tank on the tommy gate of the truck, his hand came in contact with sharp area on the containment tank and lacerated his hand. The laceration required 5 stitches to close and employee also received a tetanus shot while at the ER.

Employee sustains a compression laceration to his right hand ring finger while setting 6" core barrel in rack. Employee was wearing hi impact work gloves at the time of the incident.