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October 17, 1989 NM · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING METAL FROM #1 PRECIP. TANK.

September 6, 1989 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING ON COVERALLS, AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

January 15, 1989 NM · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS SENDING CHAINS UP PULL ROPE ABOVE BRIDGE CRANE, WHILE LOOKING UP THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A SMALL FRAGMENT OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE.

October 14, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE PULLING HEAD OFF SPERRY PRESS HEAD SLIPPED & CAUGHT EMPL FINGER BETWEEN HEAD AND BOLT.EMPL RECD CUT ON RING FINGER REQ 7 STITCHES.

August 19, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE OFF OF THE #4 SLUSHER WHEN THE CABLE STOPPED DUE TO A BACKLASH.THE ABRUPT STOP CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO STRAION HIS ABCK.

June 10, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A DRIFT ROUND.I NAME HAD JUST INSERTED THE PRIMER STICK IN A HOLE ABOUT EYE LEVEL AND WAS PUSHING THE PRIMER STICK INTO HOLE WITH A WOODEN LOADING STICK,AS HIS RIGHT HAND PUSHED LOADING 8TICK INTO THE ABOVE THE HOLE SLICED ACROSS THE BACK OF HIS HAND.

March 6, 1985 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

REPAIRING 1" AIR HOSE USING HOSE BANDER PUYLLED ON BAND TO T IGHTEN & HAND SLIPPED & SLID OVER BAND CUTTING HAND REQUIRING 8 SUTURES TO CLOSE.

December 20, 1984 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS CARRYING A ROLL OF CHAIN LINK FENCE TO HIS WORKING AREA HE STEPPED OVER A SLUSHER ROPE & FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK & LEFT SIDE.

September 13, 1984 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED DUMPING ORE CARS WITH BOTTOM DUMP DOORS, BEFORE LEAVING THE DUMPING POINT HE LEANED OVER TO CHECK THE CAR DOORS FOR BEING CLOSED. AS HE LEANED OVER HE HIT HIS MOUTH ON TH E CAB OF TRAMMER MOTOR CAUSING THE LOSS OF TWO UPPER INCISORS

March 22, 1984 NM · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck by flying object

EMPTYING ORE FROM BIN INTO TRUCK ROCK HUNG IN DOOR OPENING BETWEEN DOOR AND FRAME OF BIN PRESSURE FROM DOOR CLOSING CYLINDER BROKE ROCK CAUSING PC TO FLY AND HIT EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN CAUSING A CONTUSED WOUND REQUIRING 7 SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND FILLING LOOSE ON ONE MOLAR

February 28, 1984 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR SMALL LEAK IN AN ACID LINE AT THE NIM SIX BUILDING LINE CAME LOOSEAT THE POINT OF REPAIR LETING HYUDROCHLOIDRC ACID SPILL ONTO EMP CAUSING A SECOND DEGREE BURN UNDER THE BELT ON THE BACK

January 19, 1984 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PREPARING TO MOVE DRILLING EQUIP TO ANOTHER LOCATION.REACHED TO PICK UP ROLL OF HOSE,HAND STRUCK SHARP END OF WIRE CAUSING INCISION TO RT THENAR REGION REQ 4 SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND.

October 26, 1983 NM · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE REMOVING SUMP PUMP WITH HELP OF SMALL CRANE. EMPLOYEE REACHED TO PUSH PUMP AND TWISTED HIS BACK. HE WENT FOR MEDICAL TRETMENT ON DAY OF INJURY AND AGAIN ON 10-27-83 FOR SW THERAPY.

September 19, 1983 NM · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING ROOF OF OFFICE BUILDING TO BE REROOFED BY REMOVING AIR CONDITIONING WIRING FROM CONDUIT WHILE PULLING WIRE FROM CONDUIT WIRE HUNG HE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE WIRE BY JERKING WHILE DOING SO THE WIRE COME LOOSE AND EMPLOYEE STEPPED BACKWARD OFF ROOF FALLING APPROX 10FT TO GROUND FALL CAUSED CONTUSED WOUND TO SCALP REQUIRING 2 SUTURES TO CLOSE AND FRACTURE OF 5 6 7 A

August 31, 1983 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

INDIVIDUAL WAS CHECKING THE OIL ON FORKLIFT UNIT #552 AND AS HE WITHDREW HIS HAND HE HIT THE SHARP END OF A COTTER KEY RESULTING IN A LACERATION TO RT INDEX FINGER REQUIRING FOUR SUTURES

August 9, 1983 NM · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 2"X2" BOARDS FROM BULKHEAD, REACHED TO CATCH A FALLING BOARD-NAIL PROTRUDING FROM END OF BOARD SCRAPED HAND CAUSING A CONTUSED WOUND TO THUMB REQUIRING 10 SUTURES TO CLOS E WOUND.

May 20, 1983 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

REPLACING WATER PUMP ON #902 GENERATOR ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A RADIATOR HOSEWITH A TWISTING ACTION RESULTING IN RING FINGER AND LITTLE FINGER ON RT HAND CONTACTING A PC OF SHEET METAL RESULTI NG IN LACERATION OF AFOREMENTIONED FINGERS RT RING FINGER REQUIRED SIX (6) SUTURES

April 4, 1983 NM · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED HOISTING SKIP TO TOP OF RAISE IN STOPE. HE WAS PUSHING SKIP TO SIDE OF RAISE IN ORDER TO CLOSE TRAP DOOR OVER RAISE COMPARTMENT. THE TRAP DOOR CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN SKI P AND DOOR FRAME CAUSING A CONTUSED WOUND TO DORSUM OF RIGHT HAND REQUIRING 7 SUTURES TO CLOSE.

January 13, 1983 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Homestake Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

A MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEE WITH 3-3/4 YEARS EXPERIENCE PLACED A BOARD WHICH HAD A NAIL ON ONE END ON THE SHOP FLOOR TO STACK STEEL ON. THE TOP OF THE NAIL PROTRUDED 1-1/2 INCH ABOVE THE BOARD. TH E EMPLOYEE KICKED THE NAIL WITH HIS FOOT TO BEND IT OVER. THE NAIL WENT THROUGH HIS BOOT INTO HIS FOOT. THE NAIL DID NOT BEN. EMPLOYEE THEN KICKED NAIL WITH THE OTHER FOOT AND THE NAIL AGAIN W

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