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Employee struck left hand with a hammer while performing winter plant maintenance.
The employee was making repairs to an excavator bucket, removing excess welds and slag with a hammer and chisel. When struck, the chisel broke free from it's holder and struck the employee in the mouth cutting EE's upper lip and breaking EE's right front tooth in half.
Employees were installing and seating top ring of cone crusher when employee had EE's right hand struck by a sledge hammer, cutting and breaking EE's middle finger, and crushing EE's top knuckle.
Employee was holding pin punch by handle while second employee used sledge hammer to strike pin to remove master pin from spare excavator track. Employee felt foreign object break skin and enter left forearm when pin punch was struck.
The miner was kneeling on the ground using a sheet rock knife to cut a piece of new skirt board rubber. The blade slipped along the rubber striking the front of his right thigh causing a cut, which required four sutures to close. The next morning, we disccused what would have prevented the accident and what he could have done to protect himself against being cut.