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While working under a haul truck a 3/4" ratchet slipped out of the employee's hands, striking the employee in the side of the head as it fell.
The miner hit the end of the left index finger while driving in a screen tension wedge. This resulted in a laceration on the tip of the finger requiring three sutures.
The employee of the contractor was adjusting a return roller on a conveyor on there portable stacking equipment. The wrench slipped off of a bolt while pushing on it causing his arm to make contact with the moving belt and the frame work resulting in a laceration and two broken bones in his right arm. Note: This job has been completed and the contractor will not return.
Employee was stripping insulation off of an electrical connection with a utility knife. The knife slipped and cut the the top of his left thumb requiring 6 sutures.
EMPLOYEE'S WERE TRYING TO DISLODGE LARGE ROCK FROM 42" JAW CRUSHER FEED OPENING. INJURED EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS FINGER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER
EE HAD CUT BOTH ENDS OF A 4" X 4" X 3/8" ANGLE IRON CROSSMEMBER APPX. 6'6" LONG WITH A CUTTING TORCH. WHEN THE CROSSMEMBER DID NOT FALL FREE, EE HELD ONE END WITH HIS LEFT HAND & HIT THE OTHER END WITH A HAMMER. THE END HE WAS HOLDING UNEXPECTEDLY FELL FIRST APPROX. 2' TO ANOTHER CROSSMEMBER, SMASHING 2 FINGERS BETWEEN THEM. BROKEN BONES AT THE TIPS OF 2 FINGERS; 10 SUTURES.
USING A RAZOR KNIFE FOR PLANT MAINTENANCE, WAS CUT BY THE KNIFE.