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Employee was holding pin punch by handle while second employee used sledge hammer to strike pin to remove master pin from spare excavator track. Employee felt foreign object break skin and enter left forearm when pin punch was struck.

The miner was kneeling on the ground using a sheet rock knife to cut a piece of new skirt board rubber. The blade slipped along the rubber striking the front of his right thigh causing a cut, which required four sutures to close. The next morning, we disccused what would have prevented the accident and what he could have done to protect himself against being cut.