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Injured employee was struck by a 6 foot long aluminum bar being used by another employee, while trying to unplug the old side silo screen.

Employee was sitting on the ground underneath Kiln 1, and was using a cable stripping tool to remove the insulation from a new electrical cable that was being installed for Kiln 3. The employee was pulling the tool towards them, when the tool slipped and the blade struck them in the left knee. Employee received a laceration on the knee.

The employee was slicing conveyor belt and was cutting the belt with a utility knife. As EE was cutting the belt inside the belt frame, the top of the knife struck the chain of a come-along and caused the knife to fly out of EE's left hand. The blade of the knife struck EE on the inside of the right forearm, causing a deep puncture wound that required stitches.

Employee was attempting to empty out the Guzzler vacuum truck, but the cylinder latch on the right hand side would not release. Employee attempted to free it by using a mattock to hit up on the latch, but it did not release. When doing so they caught the left index finger between the mattock handle and a bolt on the back of the truck.

While setting limits on the Kiln 1 skip traveler, the injured employee noticed that the slack cable safety switch wire had been pulled out of the switch body, while they were repairing the high speed shaft and skip cable. Employee asked for assistance from Electrical Supervisor. Employee improperly used a knife to cut tie-wrap that was used to hoist material up.

Employee was using a steel bar to unplug the stone feeder hopper in the 36" mine belt tunnel on the surface (below the stone pocket). A rock fell down inside the hopper and struck the steel bar, causing the bar to strike the employee in the face just above the nose.

Employee was using a sledgehammer to dislodge hydrate from the K1 hydrate feed bin, and strained his left shoulder.

Employee was driving the feeder shaft of the 10E Crusher in, when his left middle finger was caught between the guard and hammer handle.

Employee was stationing the wedge connector for the cable and another emplyee was swinging a 2 pound hammer. The hammer glanced off the wedge and struck the fingers of injuried employee.

Employee was injured while placing a reach-extending pipe onto the end of the rock breaker at the crusher. The pipe slipped off, catching his thumb between the pipe and a concrete wall. The extension is used to reach up into the truck dump ore pass and dislodge hung rocks. Went to the ER no broken bones, received 18 stiches.

Employee was using a knife to cut a piece of belting; the knife slipped and cut the top of his thumb requiring 7 stitches.

WAS SCALING AND A ROCK HIT THE SCALING BAR CAUSING HIS FINGER AND HAND TO COME UPWARD AND CONTACT WITH THE BASKET AND THE BAR.