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Employee was cutting a piece of conveyor belt with a pocket style utility knife. The knife slipped out of the belt and struck the employee in EE's left knee lacerating it. The employee received 4 sutures to close the wound.
Employee was on the 8 wash screen changing poly decks. Employee was using a screwdriver to pry pin out of the poly screen. Screwdriver broke and the employee fell forward into the broken screwdriver puncturing their left wrist.
The injured worker was preparing new high voltage cables to install connecting lugs. While using a knife to trim the insulating jacket from the cable the injured worker cut EE's left hand when the knife slipped from the cable. Five sutures were used to repair the laceration.
Employee was shoveling down in the surge tunnel and struck finger against a tail pulley guard.
Employee installing a return roller and was struck in the mouth by a 2.5 pound sledge hammer that glanced off the roller.
Employee was preparing to removing a camlock from the rear of the water truck. It was stuck, so they attempted to tap the fitting with a hammer and it had pressure built up and it struck the employee in the mouth.
There was a buildup of frozen sand on the rail car door that two employees had to remove in order to properly close the door. After the material was removed, an employee inserted a spud bar into place on the car door and began to pull the bar towards self with a staggered stance. While pulling the spud bar back, the employee felt sharp pain around ankle.
While working on front-end loader with a wrench in his left hand he reached down to loosen a hose nut, when it broke loose his hand moved across a section of the hose that had a double clamps with one end sticking up and one down. The top of his hand racked across a sharp end of a clamp end cutting it to the point to require stitches.
The employee was opening railcar doors to clean the cars. One of the door latches was stuck so he pried up on it with a spud bar and when he did he felt a sharp pain in his back left shoulder. He did not seek treatment for this injury until 8-1-05. He was given a prescription for physical therapy for 3 times per week for 3 weeks.
THEY WERE CHANGING TEETH OF THE BUCKET OF THE 750 KOMATSU EXCAVATOR. EE WAS HOLDING THE BAR ON THE KEEPER, CO-WORKER WAS USING AN 8# HAMMER TO HIT BAR. HAMMER SLID OFF BAR STRIKING EE'S RIGHT HAND.
TWO MEN WERE CHANGING TOGGLE BLOCKS ON PRIMARY JAW. THEY WERE TAKING THE NUTS OFF OF THE TENSION ROD, THE ROD SNAPPED PROJECTING THE SPRING WASHER INUT AND THE BUSTENED OFF. ONE MAN EE, WAS ST RUCK ON FOREHEAD. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AND RECEIVED 8 STITCHES.
EE WAS CHANGING AN ANVIL ON ISC CRUSHER & STUCK IT WITH A HAMMER A CHIP BUSTED OFF THE HAMMER STRIKING EE IN THE CHEEK REQUIRED 4 STITCHES