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EE was clearing out a beaver dam in the area, and ended up scraping the upper right thumb knuckle. EE is not sure what EE scraped it on for sure, but EE did scrape it while clearing out the dam.
EE had picked up on the leg of the conveyor with both hands, and removed the pin. When putting it back down, the ledge of the conveyor slipped and pinched tip of EE's middle finger on the left hand. This cut EE's finger open and caused it to bleed.
EE was moving a water splitter. When EE was pulling it out to move it, the hose bounced back at EE once it was loose. The steel fitting on the end of the hose is what hit EE's forehead and gave EE the cut. Due to the cut, EE then went to the emergency room to see what needed to be done.
Unrolling a conveyer belt. Had to swing it around, and when it unrolled and did a pass it pulled employee's finger in between the pipe and the belt. Got finger stuck in it.
Pulling / lifting a screen for the screen box. When EE pulled up on the screen, EE felt a sharp pain in the midsection, like EE pulled a muscle.
EE was taking large rocks out of the cone crusher and setting them on the ledge so they can throw them out and one of the rocks rolled off the ledge and came in contact with EE's 3rd/Ring Finger on the right hand.
EE was assisting to tear down the screen box. EE got thumb caught between the deflector plate and the screen box.
EE was doing the morning inspection and while getting into the loader, the door closed before EE got hand in and the finger got caught between the door frame and the loader.
Replacing roller on conveyor and was tapping clip out of roller when something fell in right eye. EE had safety glasses on but they were fogged up so EE moved them down just a little to let the moisture out of the lenses.
Employee exited the loader without placing hard hat on his head and was removing a stuck rock from the feed conveyor when rock fell and hit employee in the head. A hard hat was provided to the employee and he had it in the loader that he just exited out of to remove the rock.
Holding tail pulley leg on conveyor trying to reinsert pin into leg and the weight of the leg came down and pinched finger between leg & frame of the conveyor. He smashed the tip of his right index finger just before the first knuckle.
Was removing rock from feeder and rock fell off lid and hit him on his forehead causing the laceration.
Crew was moving conveyors & testing alignment, when ee saw a build-up of material in hopper of 1 of the conveyors. Ee the climbed on to conveyor & pushed the built-up material with his foot-large chunk of material slid in hopper & ran through hopper where ee's hand was braced causing his finger to be pinched between angle iron & chunk of material