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Employee was using an electric stair cart to move a 55-gallon drum of oil. The cart tipped forward causing employee to strain their lower back. Employee was released back to work with temporary restrictions. No bending, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, kneeling, squatting, or twisting.

Fracture of thumb with stitches

The EE was doing clean up when a clay ball rolled off the feeder and rolled down the berm and hit their left wrist.

The Supervisor had placed their left hand in the line of fire for the 590 gate pneumatic cylinder. When the cylinder change positions their left hand was pinned while hold a flashlight.

Worker was placing bag on fill spout and put their finger under the bag clamp. The clamp crushed the tip of their right ring finger causing an open fracture of the tuft of distal phalanx of the finger.

EE tended to pallet while it was being motorized out of palletizer, finger got pinched between pallet and roller, tissue amputation on right hand ring finger

Operator was hand adding concentrate for the batching operation when air from fan blew some dust or dirt in left eye causing irritation.

Operator had just adjusted packer. Needed to adjust again, instead of turning off machine and completing the adjustment, operator tried to adjust machine with machine still on. Operator should have followed procedure. When adjusting machine from front side, operator's head hit switch that made cylinder move and caught operator's arm. Only bruise. X-Rays negative.

Operator was running palletizer for the bagging operation. Bag started to fall from the feed conveyor and operator reached to catch bag. In the process the operator cut right elbow.

EE said EE strained left shoulder on Friday while operating the main line palletizer. EE did not know what time it occurred. EE did not report the injury until Monday 6-18-18

Miner was running the main line palletizer and felt a pain in EE's left shoulder. The miner could not reach above EE's head without feeling pain in shoulder.

Maintenance employee failed to follow LOTO procedure while working on pinch tube mechanism. Pinch tube activated and crushed employee's left thumb causing loss of thumb tip at first joint.

Employee was using a chain saw on county road that leads into the mine site, to remove fallen tree limbs onto the road and fence. Employee stated later that afternoon that his back had been strained.

Lack of communication. Crusher was locked out, screening plant running. Victim apparently did not hear or heed warning from crusher operator, walked under crusher. Co-worker was removing rock threw off crusher struck EE as he emerged from under crusher. He was wearing hard hat.

While operating the semi-automatic palletizer, a piece of sand got into the operators eye even though he was wearing safety glasses.

Tried to remove piece of plastic from bag sealer while still running. Lost tip of right index finger.

Finger got caught in pulley belt of packer.

Clearing underbrush with a bulldozer the employee was struck in the forhead by a broken limb causing a laceration which required 5 stitches.

While cleaning bag house air lock with air chisel, he slipped causing air lock paddle to rotate pinching left index and middle fingers between paddle and housing thus causing laceration to left index and left middle fingers.

Busted bag stuck between conveyors. Employee tried to free it - hand got caught. Took off tips of middle and rings fingers, skin across top of hand and two fingers was pulled off. Tips reattached and skin graft to repair hand.