Employee was cutting out concave manganese wear liners from a cone crusher using an arc gouger. Employee was not wearing proper PPE and when the tip was buried employee was splashed with hot backing material burning employee's face and neck.
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Showing all 3In removing a drive belt guard a nut that was welded to the back plate had broken loose taking a piece of the back plate with it. When employee held a backup wrench on the nut and the impact was energized the wrench slipped out of employee's hand doing a 360 deg. turn slapping employee in the hand
Miner was using a 1/2 inch high torque drill when the bit hung up twisting the drill along with his hand, ultimately fracturing a bone in his hand.