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employee was using a long pry bar to hit the side of the chute to help clear the built up stone. EE was twisting while struck the chute and felt a sharp pain in EE's lower back.
Injured was using a bar to clear a chute at the 21 ft. crusher when EE felt pain in the wrist. Injured did not report the incident until 08/31 when EE requested medical treatment.
Injured was chipping slag after welding on a haul truck box when a piece of slag flew up and struck his eye lid.
The injured was removing a trougher at the tail end of the weigh belt with a pry bar, his hand slipped into guard.
Ee was removing 6" PVC pipe sections from the top of boreholes that were stuck in the muck & used a pair of pliers to try & gain a better grip. The ee was standing directly over the pipe using both hands to apply pressure to the pliers pulling in an upward motion. The pliers came loose & the pipe came up hitting the ee in mouth & face & broke a tooth & gave him a concussion.
Injured was pulling out a drill tube with pliers when the pliers slipped off the tube striking the injured in the mouth and head.