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Dropping gate on grizzly and extra rocks fell out onto grizzly causing more weight and employee pulled back.
Employee was using torches to cut the studs off of a scoop tire when a piece of slag blew out and went underneath the employees safety glasses and came into contact with EE's right eye.
I.E. put a bolt on the boom of bolter after drilling hole. When ee moved boom the bolt hung on the frame of the bolter & popped up, hitting ee in the mouth. It moved one of ee front teeth forward causing ee to get dental work. The I.E. has not missed any time due to this incident.
Employee received injuries to the left hand when their hand was caught between the tailpiece controls and the tailpiece.
Employee was operating a electric (walk behind) pallet jack to unload a truck when employee ran over their right foot.
Employee was attempting to get a bolt wrench out of the offside drill pot and back spun the wrench when it came out of the drill pot and struck the employee in the right side of head causing a laceration.
Employee was lowering boom and getting drill steel out of drill pot. EE stepped forward still having joy stick in hand when EE lost footing causing EE to hit rotation, and drill steel struck left hand/wrist.