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Injured was changing the blade on his utility knife and during the process of changing the blade cut his index and second finger on his left hand. The laceration required stitches.
Injured was hammering on a clevis, struck the index finger on his right hand. Injured reported incident on 06/18/2013 to request medical attention for his finger and x-rays revealed a fracture of his finger.
Injured was cutting a piece of belt and slipped and cut his forearm. Injured received two sutures for his injury.
Injured was splicing a miner cable and cut his left knuckle and received 5 stitches making this a reportable incident.
Injured was putting together waterline for a belt move. Injured was struck in the side of the head with a sledge hammer, that bounced off the waterline, then striking the victim. Victim was taken to hospital and received 4 stitches.
Injured was making a belt splice in the slope, while he and a fellow employee were making the splice, injured reached to grab the nail driver. Fellow employee swung sledge at same time and struck injureds Right Hand. This caused a small fracture behind his knuckle.
An underground laborer was dragging roads when he encountered problems with the drag. He could not get the drag to release from its upward position, so injured untightened a hydraulic hose fitting. When doing so, this released pressure to the drag, which fell down upon injured's left foot. Injured was transported to local hospital with a puncture wound and some broken toes.
Worker was cutting conveyor belt from roll when knife slipped out of belt and cut him on the left hand. Was last job before ending shift.