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Employee cleaning under tail pulley of HSI motor, saw a hanging drive belt, informed crew. While assisting with belt replacement, 2nd employee cut belt while 1st employee's hand was under drive motor. Drive motor held in place by belt & a pivoting bracket. Once belt was cut, motor pivoted, landing on employee's hand, smashing it. The employee was taken to ER for treatment.
Employee trying to break bolt loose with wrench & bar. Wrench broke & struck shoulder. Employee had discomfort & limited mobility in arm; taken to ER. Diagnosed with contusion, no restrictions. Referred for MRI. Two follow-up appointments (09/18 and 10/01) with return to full duty/no restrictions. Seen by Ortho on 10/17. Placed on restricted duty. Only became reportable on 10/17.
Employee was checking belt because there were rocks stuck. EE tried removing rocks with pry bar, but it didn't work. EE then held pry bar while another employee used a small sledgehammer to strike bar. A small piece of metal broke off bar and struck employee in right cheek, causing a small laceration and bruising. The employee was taken to the ER, examined and received one suture.
Maintenance mechanic was changing out skid plates on log washer. While hammering on the old skid plate below them, a metal fragment flew under their safety glasses and lodged in their eye. Employee reported the incident to their manager. Safety Dept. was notified. The employee was taken to ER and the metal piece was removed.
Employee removing fins from log washer. Bolts were torched off fins. Fins were stuck, so employee tapped fin with hammer. Within 3 taps of hammer, employee noticed blood dripping onto fin. Employee looked & saw arm bleeding. Metal splinter had broken off fin & entered employee's arm. Employee exited log washer & notified supervisor. Employee taken to ER, where splinter was removed.
Employee punctured left hand above thumb with utility knife. Employee was using utility knife to clean up a wiper when EE accidently stabbed EE's left hand above the thumb. Employee wrapped hand in shirt and went to Monahans ER to be evaluated. Puncture wound required four small stitches. Employee was able to return to work following day.
Employee was attempting to break up a rock with a sledgehammer and hit foot with sledgehammer.
An employee was attempting to extract a bearing from the filter rock stacker tail pulley. In order to achieve this the employee was hammering the bearing and the second strike to the bearing caused a piece of metal to lodge in the employee's eye. Supervisor was notified immediately and employee was transported to the hospital.
Employee was using pipe wrench and while pulling down on it the pipe wrench lost its bite, and fell from position. In an attempt to catch the wrench from falling to EE's feet, the employee felt shoulder / neck strain.
An employee was pushing on a pipe wrench and felt a pop in EE's arm.
An employee was getting wood to make a sign from an old pallet and when ee was taking it apart ee swung the hammer and hit left lower leg. EE had a bruise and now has a bump that is red.
Employee cut arm with a razor knife while affecting repairs to a conveyor belt. Injury required five stitches to left forearm.
Employee making repairs to the drive sprocket on a skid steer loader. While striking the drive sprocket with a hammer in order to loosen it a small piece of flying metal struck the employee in the left hand causing a cut that required 3 sutures.
Employee was standing on back of welding trailer loosening mounting bolt off of a 1400 screen plant when the 1/2in drive 3/4in socket slipped off of the loose nut and came in to contact with the top front left tooth causing it to chip a 3rd of the tooth off.
Miner first reported injury while on days off 11/01/15 by text message to Plant Manager. Claimed injury, sprain of lumbar spine ligaments, occurred while operating a front end loader at an unspecified date/time the week prior. During a return to work physical examination on 11/04/15, Miner described his injury had occurred while swinging a sledgehammer on 10/30/15.