Miner was lying on side cutting a hole in an auger when hot slag fell into miner's right ear traveling down the ear canal to the ear drum.
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Showing all 10The miner was checking the tension of the belts on the Cimco horizontal crusher. When the miner rolled the belts, EE's right middle finger was pulled into the pulley, severing it at the first knuckle below the fingernail.
EE was changing a cutting blade on the grinder when the grinder powered on, cutting EE's left ring finger.
Employee was cutting a piece of siding material with a grinder when a shard of metal hit their cheek and ricocheted inside of safety glasses and struck their right eye.
Grinding piece of steel, slipped and cut right forearm.
EE unbolted cover guard. White blender was running to check for build up, left coat sleeve came in contact with blending bar which tore his coat sleeve and caused laceration on left forearm.
Stood truss on edge to weld and it fell over on its side hitting EE on head and neck.
Employee reported injury to us on 06/16/08. EE was grinding on a piece of steel, EE was wearing his safety glasses at the time of injury. No time lost.
ADJUSTING BAG SADDLE TO FIT A DIFFERENT SIZE BAG AND THE STAND PINCHED R HAND THUMB, BRUISING THE THUMB.
EE WAS HOLDING A PIECE OF DIAMOND PLATE IN PLACE TO WELD, IT SLIPPED AND THE EDGE CAUGHT HIS FINGER.