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EE was changing the bucket teeth on a 992 Loader while using a hammer to knock the teeth off a piece of metal flew from the tooth and hit him in the left side of his stomach.
EE was using a torque wrench torquing head mounting bolts when he strained his lower back.
Employee was hitting a sprocket with a hammer and a piece of hammer chipped off and hit him on his right lower arm. He received 6 stitches. No lost time
Employee was droping pins on the miner and using a sledgehammer when his back started to hurt.
He was tightening a bolt on the highwall miner. When the wrench slipped off bolt, he fell on his left wrist and fractured it.
He heated a piece of metal on the blade of a dozer. Another employee struck it with a sledgehammer. The handle broke on the hammer. The head of the hammer went into the air and came down and hit employee on top of his head. Cut on top of his head. 6 staples, "{no lost time".
Working on hi-wall miner repairing piller box. Bent over using a hammer. Strained his back.