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Employee was assisting with capping a drill hole with cement and inadvertently stepped in the cement causing some wet cement to enter into EE's right boot. The cement caused a chemical burn to the top of EE's right foot resulting in restrictions to EE's work duties.
While operating an impact gun to remove bolts in a tight spot, the bolt broke free and the mechanic began pulling the impact gun out of the spot and caught thumb on a metal burr causing a cut requiring one stich on left thumb. The mechanic was wearing gloves.
Employee felt an onset of pain in right wrist when using a hand shovel to collect drill samples and place in bags.
Driver was adjusting the tilt of EE's haul truck seat while EE was sitting on it.
While trying to pull a heavy pallet out of the back of a pickup, the employee felt a 'pop' in the left forearm and immediate pain. The resulting injury was a torn ligament from the bicep that separated from the forearm commonly known as a "Popeye" injury.
IE strained/sprained right forearm, possibly up towards/into EE's right shoulder area. This happened as while lifting a 5 gal. bucket with tools (est. 25 lbs.) out of the toolbox storage unit. IE and co-worker drove down and immediately reported the incident and cold pack was introduced to this strained area of the arm.
Piece of metal was dropped while being installed. Employee had hand placed under the metal, when it fell it smashed EE's right hand, causing a displaced fracture of the third metacarpal.
Technician manually lifted two turbo cores (weighing about 60lbs ea.) into service truck. They placed a box on each of them to minimize lifting, then rolled the boxes into place for transport. When rolling, they felt a minor pain in their back that worsened over time. That day the temperature reached a high of 42 degrees with heavy snow flurries and wet, muddy walking surfaces.
Employee was in the gold cast room. Employee and some others where holding the first copper bar to test the system. Employee held the bar with their arm fully extended to see how long they could hold it. Employee then heard a snap.