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While Employee 1 held the spring-loaded latch in a raised position, the tire bar slipped as Employee 2 positioned the new roller, creating a pinch point that caught their left thumb between the roller and latch.
Using a pipe wrench to break loose a plugged piece of equipment. EE stated EE was putting pressure on it, it broke loose and EE's left hand got caught between the pipe wrench and shiv. EE stated it crushed EE's hand in the same place of EE's previous fracture from last year.
Employee was wrenching on a tail pulley when the wrench got stuck. They decided to use more body weight resulting in the wrench falling and hitting their shoulder.
Completed screen change. Moved down to change gate configuration. Another employee attempted to close from the below the chute, unsuccessfully. EE began clearing material from the outside of chute with a 6' breaker bar. When the material loosened and sloughed off, EE was still throwing the bar. Which resulted in EE's left arm overextending and striking the divider wall.
Employee was cutting open a caulking gun tube when employee's knife slipped and cut employee's hand.
Operator performing a screen change, when the head of the bolt spun resulting in laceration to left index finger. Required 7 stitches. Full Duty Release.
Employee was using a utility knife to cut a hole in a belt to put a rope through, in order to lace the belt back onto the conveyor. Utility knife slipped resulting in 1" laceration to left thigh.
EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING A ROCK OUT OF THE GRIZZLY BARS WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LEFT ELBOW.
Cut my left thumb by trimming off a ripped piece of conveyor belt with my razor knife.
Using a pry-bar to re-align the bowl of the HP 300 when the pry-bar slipped crushing my pinky between the pry-bar and safety railing.
Miner was putting a bearing housing on a press table, to press out bearing. Pryed up one side of housing with a bar and a small block to get a better bite on housing for positioning over press. Housing slipped off the pry bar and slid and pinched miner's finger between housing and press table, resulting in a cut finger, requiring stitches.
Employee was clearing rocks that were stuck inside the crusher jaw. He was using a wedge and a cable to clear the rocks and once the jaw was clear he began pulling the cable up. At this time a rock fell causing the cable to tighten and pinch his left thumb between the cable and a steel frame. The employee received 7 stitches and was released to full duty.
EE was looking in the shaft of Skyline, removed his safety glasses (dark) to get a better look. When pulling his head away from shaft, other EE standing on other side dropped his wrench which hit a can of Brakekleen lying on catwalk puncturing the can & spraying a mist into his eyes. He was taken to eyewash station (per MSDS), then to clinic where they flushed & released him.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING BAR TO PUSH ROCKS DOWN JAW CHUTE. ROCK HIT THE BAR CAUSING THE BAR TO SLIP OUT OF HIS HAND AND HITTING HAND AGAINST JAW CHUTE.
While using a utility knife to cut a zip tie off an extension cord, the knife slipped and cut the employee's left index finger. He recieved 5 stitches and was released to regular duty.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A BAR IN PLACE WHILE COWORKER SWUNG 20 LB. SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE WEDGE IN ON CONE. EE'S RIGHT HAND WAS SMASHED BY HAMMER (2 FINGERS CUT - 5 STITCHES).
WHILE WORKING ON CRUSHER JAW-EE INJURED ELBOW WHILE PULLING HARD ON WRENCH. EE REPORTED 3-19-01.
WHILE REMOVING PIECE OF CONCRETE FROM CRUSHER JAW WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, EMPLOYEE HIT FOOT.
WHILE PRYING A SHEET OF METAL, THE PRYBAR CAME LOOSE AND THE EE'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PRYBAR AND SHEET OF METAL.