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2000–2026
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January 18, 2018 FL · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Edgar Minerals, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was using a knife to check the up and down motion of a sheave at the #2 booster pump. EE was spinning it by hand. The sheave hit the knife and cut the employee's right pointer finger.

June 13, 2017 FL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Edgar Minerals, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

An employee was tapping bolts into the 12" flange for the waste pump with the hammer in EE's right hand when the hammer slipped and EE hit left hand, fracturing EE's left middle finger.

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