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employee was helping replace a cone liner using a sledge hammer to loosen three inch nuts from liner while striking the nut broke loos resulting in the nut falling on employees foot breaking little toe on right foot requiring 9 stitches
Employee was using a pry bar to install a wiper on a sand belt when the pry bar slipped striking a second employee in the right forearm causing fracture.
Were replacing a conveyor belt on sander, employee was using screwdriver to travel or rotate belt when hand slipped off striking pulley resulting in stitches to little finger and ring finger on left hand.
Employee was in the process of cutting a new wiper to replace an old one. The utility knife being used slipped off the wiper & punctured the employee's upper left leg. The employee was taken to the medical center & was given two sutures to close the wound. The employee did not miss any work nor was given any work restrictions.