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Employee was inspecting conveyors belts, found a froze idler, found a bar and tapped the frame of the idler several times and the bar slipped after several attempt, catching the tip of the bar on the next roller downstream, approx. 18" away, started to pull the bar in and the bar was forced upward into the frame which smashed the employees thumb between the bar and the frame.

Worker was assisting in the assembly of an air slide. Sections were being lifted into place by a chain fall from above. When lifted the air slide shifted and pinched his hands.

Employee was driving a bearing into an end cap housing. Employee injured was using a steel plate to drive bearing and swung a 3-4 lb dead blow hammer, forgot where his right thumb was and the hammer he swung strongly and hit his right thumb. Employee was taken to ER. Employee was released to light/ restricted duty.

Worker was attempting to close an inspection door on the pre-heater tower using a sledge hammer. He was hitting one of the hinges with the sledge and missed the hinge causing his pinky finger to be caught between the door and the handle.

Miner using 6 ton come-along to pull gear box out chain on hoist broke and struck miner on right leg.

Employee stated that after driving pins for the bottom ash feeder with a sledge hammer on the 1/18/13 he developed soreness in the neck and shoulder on 1/19/13. Employee did not request his supervisor to file incident report until 1/22/2013 which was when the employee was evaluated and medically treated.

Injured employee was standing next to a coworker that was striking a chisel with a hammer and was struck in the back of the right hand with what appears to be a small sliver of metal. This resulted in an embedded object on the back on of right hand.

While cleaning sprayer to apply stain the hose lifted out of the bucket and sprayed acetone on the left side of EE's face. EE immediately flushed his face with bottled water and reported to the job trailer for eye wash solution. EE contined to experience burning in his eye and was taken to the emergency room for treatment.

Miner was removing wooden 2x4 plates with a pry bar. While striking the pry bar, a metal shard chipped off of the striking surface of his hammer shot in his hand through his leather work glove. The shard was removed at the hospital and the miner returned to work.

The employee was prying open a crate, it was raining at the time. His hand slipped off the pry bar and hit the crate, wedging his hand between the bar and the crate.His hand was sore but there was no visable damage, swelling or bruising.

Team member had to air arc a misalignment on a calciner piece, after air arcing, he took a short handled 3# hammer and started banging on the piece to see if the weld was cut all the way through. on the 5th swing, he pinched his lettle finger between the steel and the hammer handle.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND CHIPPING WHEN SLAG ENTERED RIGHT EYE.

Rigging resulting in a personal injury.

A lump was stuck in a feed chute. The employee was using a bar to strike the lump trying to dislodge the lump. The employee struck a flange with his hand on the bar fracturing his right index finger.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A 3 FOOT PIPE WRENCH WHEN HE HEARD A POP IN HIS LEFT WRIST.

EE WAS HOLDING A DRIFT PIN FOR A CO-WORKER, WHEN THE CO-WORKER MISSED THE DRIFT PIN. HE HIT EE'S FINGER (THUMB) AND BROKE HIS THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING A HAMMER, STRIKING A WEDGE IN A CRANE BUCKET TO KNOCK IT OUT. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELT HIS RIGHT ELBOW POP.

EE WAS REPLACING LINK ON DRAG CHAIN USING A CHAIN JACK TO HOLD CHAIN. EE STUCK HIS FINGER IN LINK CHECKING ALIGNMENT FOR PIN. HOOK ON CHAIN JACK BROKE LETTING CHAIN MOVE SHEARING EE'S RT.INDEX FINGER OFF.