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Unwiring an electric motor and utility knife slipped when cutting tape and sliced through coveralls, jeans, and long johns to make lacerate inside of left thigh. A few stitches and no lost time.
Employee was cutting tape on wires to a motor and it was snow covered, wet, and slippery and the utility knife slipped causing it to cut through his gloves and lacerate the back side of his left thumb.
EE was using a vise grip pliers to close the end of an s-hook from a hold down strap. The vise grip pliers slipped off of the s-hook and pinched his left middle finger.
IE was changing screens in the middle deck of #4 screen with co-worker. Co-worker was swinging a 4 lb hammer to set the screen in the screen deck. IE inadvertently put his left hand next to the area that co-worker was swinging and IE's left middle finger was struck by the hammer.
EE was removing a rock from the feeder grizzly. The sledge hammer head came off the the handle causing the handle to strick the rock which over extended ee left elbow. (acute strain).
EE was lifting a ratchet chain hoist in place to raise the gravity take-up weight for the Pit Long Belt Unit # 34-135-S. While lifting the ratchet chain hoist in place he strained a muscle in his right shoulder.
EE WAS HAMMERING WEDGES IN TO TIGHTEN THE SCREENS ON PLANT. THE ONE BEHIND THE MOTOR, WHEN STRUCK, CAME BACK OUT HITTING EE BY THE LEFT EYE.