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Employee was working fro Teck-Cominco at the time and was beating on a pressurized paste pipe when the plug broke loose. The pipe with the pressure releasing swung over & knocked employee over on his right shoulder, breaking his collar bone.
While tightening a bolt on a 8" vic clamp on a paste pipe line, he was pulling on the wrench when he felt a pop in his right shoulder and it gave out and had alot of pain.
Attempting to remove a heater core from D9 Dozer. Ee trying to remove a bolt overtorqued the wrench slipped off of the head of the bolt. This caused ee to lose his balance. He was standing on the track of the dozer. Ee fell approx 4 ft to the ground causing pain in his right shoulder. Ee was returned to work the same day as the injury.
Employee was using a razor knife to cut holes in a piece of rubber belt. the razor knife unexpectedly came out of the material and struck the employee at the base of the left thumb, causing a laceraiton. He developed an infection on the 10-12-05 and received a perscription of antibiotics.