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After a long shift operator was walking the dozer down the access road from the pit and while trying to make the turn at a switchback got the tracks too far over the berm and slid down and rolled dozer down the slope, it rolled once with a slow slide.
Tom was tightening a nut on a bolt when the nut spun freely and cut the palm of his hand. He was holding on to the nut when it happened.
Grinding on the underside of a truck trailer while on his back and metal particle got in his eye. After flushing the eye and getting the particle out the employee finished his shift with no problems but the next day still felt the eye was bothering him. He went to clinic and got an antibiotic for a scratch on his eye. After the visit to the clinic- he returned to work.