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While an employee was manually turning the HPGR drive with a prybar the inertia of motion from the HPGR rolls continued to shift the drive with the prybar wedged in between while the employee's hand was still grasped onto the prybar. The force of prybar pinched the employee's right pinky finger against the bottom of the metal cage used to guard the drive when it is energized.

Employee was un-coupling a trailer mounted pressure washer from a pick-up truck hitch. The trailer tongue jack failed resulting in the tongue falling to the ground and striking the employee in the dorsal region of the right foot. This resulted in fracture to the right foot.

While attempting to clear a material jam in the cone crusher with a small pin bar the employee's momentum carried their hand too close to a fixed object as the bar sank into the material. The employee smashed their finger between the pin bar and the frame of a hatch door to the cone crusher. The employee failed to use the proper and required tool for the job.

While trying to release a rock build up in a cone crusher with a 6' pry bar through the side hatch door a few rocks released smashing the employee's right index finger causing a fracture to the employee's finger.

While cutting a pattern out on a piece of rubber belt with a folding utility knife, the locking mechanism failed allowing the blade to fold back in towards the employee's hand leaving a laceration. Two stitches were required.

While removing a dozer ripper tooth with a 3 lb. sledge hammer after gouging with an air arc, the employee felt a pinch on EE's right calf on EE's first strike with the hammer. The employee felt the warmth and wetness of blood running down EE's leg and EE pulled EE's FR pants up to realize EE had a wound to EE's leg from the sheared medal.

While an employee was prepping samples in the lab they cut left hand with a folding handled razor blade while trying to cut some cellophane to cover the samples.

Employee was standing in a loader bucket hammering outward trying to remove a lip protector from the bucket. While hammering with a sledge hammer a piece of metal flew off and hit EE's left forearm. The object became embedded into the arm.

Employee was holding a punch tool with a pair of vice grips while another employee was hitting the punch to remove a pin in the tracks of a piece of equipment. The other employee hit the punch with a sledge hammer causing debris to break off from the punch and shoot into the employee's hand. Employee was left with a fragment of the debris in left hand.

Due to the set up of the equipment the employee was working on the employee was in an awkward position with arm extended holding an 18" crescent wrench attempting to relieve the pressure on a tension-er. This put a strain on the employee's neck resulting in a strained neck muscle.

Employee was breaking off snap ties when the pipe slipped from his hand. The pipe sprang back, hitting him just below the nose, requiring stitches