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While installing a bushing in the shovel bucket, Employee missed the bushing with the hammer and hit his finger on bushing.
Using pry bar on PH1 screen deck, prying screen panels out to access bolts put pressure on bar, it slipped and hit mouth breaking front tooth and cutting lip
Swinging small sledge hammer to replace ripper shank on a dozer and the head flow off in the middle of a down swing causing weight change in the handle and causing the miner to strike his middle finger on a piece of the shank. Cutting right middle finger.
Tankhouse Harvestor was cutting plastic banding on emitter tube roll, the band broke and hit the utility knife, which cut his left forearm and required 6 stitches.
Crusher operator was removing rocks that had plugged the transfer chute when one of the rocks fell on his right foot, causing bruising.
Worker was cutting with a razor knife in right hand and holding an HDPE liner with left hand, when knife slipped and cut his left palm. Cut required 4 stitches.
Employee was tightening bolts on stationary side of jaw crusher when he dropped the socket and it landed on his left ring finger, fracturing the tip.
Employee was harvesting cu cathode using pry bar. Bar slipped and hit employee in left knee, causing a contusion.
Employee was cleaning screen on sump pump and a 5 foot pry bar fell and hit him in the head, requiring 10 stitches behind the ear.
Employee was removing SAG Mill liner bolts with a sledge hammer when he hit the bolt off-center and smashed his finger between the bolt and the hammer.
The injured employee was working near and in the area below the sag mill. The employee above knocked an open end box wrench off of the nut he was tightening with his elbow. The wrench fell 3 feet and hit the employee below in the lip, causing a laceration.
Employee was tightening bolts on a 36 inch flange, slipped off of pipe and fell 4 1/2 to 5 feet on the concrete below, causing a laceration to the left hand and a fracture to the right leg.
Employee was working under stacker pulley. As he was climbing out from under it and back over the handrail, employee's spud wrenches got caught on handrails and swung over, hitting right elbow, causing a contusion.
Employee was removing tooth from shovel with a hammer and a piece of the tooth broke off and embedded in employees chest.
While placing dowels on the tower mill, the employee was pulling rebar and his hand slipped off of the bar he was pulling which caused his arm to strike a piece of rebar and a laceration on his forearm.
While harvesting copper cathode, cathode stuck on starter sheet. While loosening the cathode with the pry bar, the cathode slipped off the starter sheet and cut the harvester on the upper arm requiring 16 stiches.
Employee: Cutting banding on emitter tubes with knife - slipped and cut finger.
AT APPROX. 1445 ON 7-15-02 A TEMPOARY EE FROM A STAFFING AGENCY RECIVED A CUT TO HIS LEFT HAND WITH A PERSONAL KNIFE. THE TEMP WAS CUTTING A ONE HOSE WHEN HIS KNIFE SLIPPED FROM THE CUTTING AR EA AND CUT THE OUTSIDE OF HIS LEFT HAND.
EE WAS USING A SOFT FACE HAMMER TO REMOVE CATHODE SHEET. DURING MID SWING OF HAMMER THE HEAD LIP LACERATION AND LOOSENING OF SEVERAL FRONT TEETH REQUIRING STITCHES TO LIP AND GUM. EE HAS BEEN RETURNED TO WORK BY PHYSICIAN. NO TOOTH LOSS INCURRED.