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A large piece of metal had lodged in the cone crusher North while trying to remove the metal, the crusher turned and smashed the employee's thumb against the bowl.
The employee was working on an impact crusher internal parts, when removing the main curtain hanger left side came loose the right side broke landing on his hand. There was no way to see the broken side of the shaft holding up the curtain. The right side hanger should have held.
He strained his back loading powder monkey with 50 lb bags of ANFO.
EE WAS CLEANING UP BY HAND AROUND PLANT, PITCHED A ROCK INTO A CHUTE, MISSED, TRIED TO CATCH ROCK, ROCK FELL ON LITTLE FINGER.
WAS PULLING GEAR OFF OF SHAFT ON POWER TAK OFF AND FINGER BECAME LODGED BETWEEN SHAFT & GEAR. THE BELT THAT DROVE GEAR HAD MORE TENSION ON IT THAN ANTICIPATED.
INJURED WAS RUNNING A LOADER CLEANING FACES WHEN THE CUTTING EDGE CAME OFF. HE BENT OVER TO LOAD CUTTING EDGE INTO BUCKET AND PULLED BACK THE CUTTING EDGE WEIGHS ABOUT 65 LBS.
MAN WAS INSTALLING DRAIN PIPE, WHILE TRYING TO LINE PIPE HIS FINGER SLIPPED, INTO THE CONNECTION. PIPE SLIPPED TOGETHER WITH FINGER IN THE CONNECTION.
REPAIRING P4 CONVEYOR BELT, EE STATES, IS WHEN HE THINKS HE HURT HIS BACK.