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Contractor Employee injured left elbow when trying to rotate feed cylinder (still in crate) with pry bar in the mine yard. Contractor Employee was rotating cylinder crate to do a proper hoist with telehandler.
The employee was using a fin-hoe to clean out lifter holes after drilling them, when EE felt pain in the lower back/left hip.
The employee was using a safety knife to strip 00 electrical cable when they sustained a laceration to the Left thumb.
EE used a ratchet strap to set bead on small utility tire, upon releasing ratchet strap, it whipped & struck employee on back of left hand.
Employees were unscrewing a bowl from the crusher mainframe. Employees were using bars to unscrew the bowl. The injured employee's bar slipped, causing the employee's right hand to come in contact with a hand rail. Pinching the employee's finger between the bar and hand rail.
Laceration to left hand palm. Cutting an avocado during coffee with a razorblade knife.
Employee was using a scaling bar to dislodge a rock from the #56 chute when the rock fell against the scaling bar crushing right 5th finger between the scaling bar and the back. The employee's finger sustained a full thickness laceration severing the tendon and dislocating the appendage.
Employee was scaling heading when employee got out of claw, employee noticed when employee raised arm employee had shoulder pain. Employee did not know of anything employee did that would have hurt it. Employee was carried out for a drug screen and returned to work. Employee came in 9/6/18 about shoulder and was taken to the clinic for evaluation.
EE was cutting a chain, footing slipped causing hand to slide down the handle of the bolt cutters into the closing stop as they closed. The tip of L ring finger was crushed in the closing stop. The bone was broken and a laceration on finger. EE was transported to Medical Center where EE received treatment that included 5 sutures and shots for tetanus and antibiotics.
hand scaling and small rock fell, slid down scaling bar and cut left thumb
Using a wrench to tighten a bolt on the test drill when he felt a sting in the back of his right shoulder.
Opening box with knife; hand slipped when he contacted a staple; cut thigh
Using shovel to un-jam a conveyor and chute when he felt pain in his shoulder. Case did not become recordable until 2/12/14 after his first medical evaluation.
Using a pry bar to assist installation of a boom extension cylinder pin on mechanical scaler felt pain in back
The miner was using a come along to secure door on skip pocket when the clevis slipped out of hand and hit the miner's knee.
using a pry bar to straighten the over travel bracket on the shop crane when the pry bar came loose and he twisted his knee
Utilities worker was rebuilding a flushing head for the drill jumbo when he hit his finger with a hammer
Miner was replacing the wear liner plate on the #3 shaft. While using a spud wrench, his hand slipped and he struck his left forearm on the adjacent vertical steel member.
Tightening bolts on an oscillation weldment on DUX truck; hyper extended thumb.
Miner was using a razor blade to open a PM kit when he cut his opposing hand between his index finger and thumb.
Miner was using a sledge hammer to break bearings loose on a pulley when a fragment of metal broke loose and struck miner's right shoulder.
Miner was using a wrench to tighten the drill slide when the wrench slipped and mashed two fingers.
Miner was using a large pipe wrench to loosen a nut when he twisted his back.
Miner was using a hammer to drive a pin in a claw pick when he missed the pen and hit his left right finger causing a fracture.