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March 3, 2026 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Maintenance replacing the trunnion/bearing rollers on the rotary screen. While attempting to remove the strap holding the roller/bearing, the weight shifted and caused the roller and bearing to shift and struck the Techs right hand causing a laceration to EE's (R) index finger, requiring 7 stitches.

January 20, 2026 NC · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was relocating a waterline pipe in the shop to be fabricated and pinched EE's pinky finger between the pipe and floor when setting the pipe down. Employee was taken to the urgent care to find a fractured fingered.

December 16, 2025 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal lab technician HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The employee was assisting in loading an X-ray machine into the back seat of a pickup truck. The weight of the machine shifted in EE's hands unexpectedly, resulting in EE's hand being pinched between the corner of the machine and the center B pillar/door jam of the vehicle, resulting in a laceration to the right ring finger.

September 4, 2025 IL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Struck by falling object

Two maintenance employees were adding a return roller and brackets to BC-124. While putting the roller into the brackets one side went in with ease. That employee then went to help EE's partner by lifting the belt. The struggling employee hit the roller with EE's had causing it to fall out of the bracket and land on the side of EE's boot fracturing EE's pinky toe

June 4, 2025 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Maintenance Mechanic working on a bearing to a fan completed the repairs and was re-installing a pulley guard, the guard got stuck and as the Mechanic pulley on the guard to free it to complete the installation EE's (R) ring finger and pinky finger got pinched between the guard and the fan. Causing a fracture to the tip of EE's ring finger.

November 12, 2024 ID · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covia Solutions LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Fluid bed sand dryer was plugged with wet sand. Operator was checking the progress of unplugging efforts by opening an access door to the discharge chute. Operator did not stand aside when opening the door and was struck by hot sand. Injuries sustained were first and second degree burns to face, head, neck and upper arms.

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