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Employee was standing in area of work being conducted on gear box. When maintenance team member was hitting gear, a small piece of metal broke off and struck employee in left forearm area causing a small laceration.
Employee was cutting a rag with a utility knife to cover face from wind and didn't have gloves on. The knife opened up and cut employee's right hand.
Working on a wheel, hit ring with hammer and knocked it off and EE tried to grab it and it cut EE's right pinkie finger.
Employee from American Tire company was at our site breaking beads on a tire on our equipment (2872). The bead breaker smashed the middle finger on right hand between the piece of equipment and the hydraulic pusher resulting in 20 stitches. The finger was not broke and no ligaments are involved.
CHANGING EARTHMOVER TIRE WITH BOOM TRUCK AND BEAD BREAKER KICKED OFF AND SMASHED/CUT 3RD FINGER./
Dumped rock out of truck. Was holding tailgate to clean rock off spreader pan. The scraper slipped and caught hand. Lacerated left ring finger.
Employee was replacing V-belts on the dry screen feed conveyor and he was trying to loosen the speed reducer up so it would make it easier to slip the V-belts over the pulleys. He was using a pry bar approximately 30" long to loosen up the turn buckle when the bar slipped out he smashed his finger between the pry bar and the hand rail on the man lift.
Wrench mashed small finger, cut botom of first knuckle on right hand.