The Employee was TIGHTENING a HOSE CLAMPS with a SCREWDRIVER and the screwdriver slipped AND PUNCTURE LEFT HAND.
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Showing all 11breaking loose material with a bar and hammer the employee felt a sprain/strain in his left shoulder.
Employee was changing a bearing on a screen and while pulling hard to break a bolt loose strained his abdomin.
As the employee was using a hammer to loosen a tooth from a loader bucket, a sliver of metal from the tooth chipped off and became imbedded into the employee's hand.
As the employee was cutting a piece of rubber for a skirtboard, the utility knife that he was using slipped and cut his left hand.
The employee lacerated the palm of his hand on the blade of a utility knife that he was using to cut rubber nosing for #3 screen.
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKING OFF DUST AND STONES FROM A CONVEYOR CATWALK WITH A METAL BAR, HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BECAME PINCHED BETWEEN THE METAL AND THE SIDE OF A CONVEYOR, CAUSING A LACERATION.
WHILE THE EE WAS DRIVING OUT BROKEN BOLTS FROM THE AC500 CRUSHER, THE 4-POUND HAMMER DEFLECTED OFF OF A BROKEN BOLT AND STRUCK THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
WHILE THE EE WAS ASSISTING IN TIGHTENING BELTS ON THE VSI CRUSHER, THE RATCHET ADJUSTER SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO SMASH HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE RATCHET AND THE MOTOR MOUNT.
WHILE ASSISTING IN PULLING A SIDE PLATE FROM THE OUTSIDE OF THE PRIMARY CRUSHER, A CO-WORKER WHO WAS POSITIONED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLATE, SWUNG A SLEDGE HAMMER TO LOOSED THE PLATE AND ST RUCK THE EMPLOYEE'S FINGER.
EE LACERATED HIS THUMB WITH A UTILITY KNIFE WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF RUBBER FOR A BELT SCRAPER.