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Employee struck their left thumb with a hammer while tightening a bolt with a slug wrench.
An employee was using a chisel and hammer to remove a bearing. The chisel splintered and a metal fragment hit employee on the forearm causing a small laceration. A month later, employee started feeling discomfort when moving finger. An X-ray was done on 9/16/24 showing a foreign body embedded in their arm. Surgery will be required to remove it.
The injured employee was observing / assisting another employee with removing a stuck piece of material from a chute. The employee dropped the pry bar onto the injured employee's left hand.
While performing maintenance on the self cleaning tail pulley bearing, a miner had the loose side of the pulley propped up with a pry bar, while another miner was sizing the bearing to the shaft. The bar slipped causing the tail pulley to drop injuring the right index finger of the miner requiring 16 stitches.
Two employees were working to shotcrete an area. The shotcrete nozzle handle became stuck and a wrench was used to turn it. The injured employee had a finger in the line of fire and left pinky was struck with the wrench causing a distal phalanx fracture.
Technician was removing the left rear cab bolt from a 982M wheel loader using a 3/4" ratchet wrench. Technician was pulling ratchet when they felt a pain in lower abdomen area. Following morning, technician was in pain and went to emergency room. Technician was diagnosed with a hernia.
Employee was disconnecting flexible water hose with cam lock fittings. While trying to pry the fittings apart with a tool, one of the hose ends struck the employee on the nose.
Employee two years experience in Maintenance on the plant was dismantling a conveyor. Wearing the proper PPE (leather welding gloves) the employee was driving a pin out with a punch and hammer. He then missed the punch when he swung and struck his finger with the hammer on his left index finger.
The drive belts on the crusher discharge converyor burned off. The employee could not find the correct size belt and decided to cut down a wider belt to fit. He used a utility knife to cut and the knife slipped striking him in the leg sustaining a laceration.