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Employee cut EE's fingers while changing the blades on the 950 Cat front end loader. EE was holding the plow bolt head with EE's right hand while using an impact with EE's left to loosen the nut. Once the impact engaged the bolt dropped down and spun cutting the 2 middle fingers.

2 miners were removing journal rollers. While loosening the nut, the head of the bolt slid out of the hardware cavity. The injured minor used right ring finger to push up and reseat it into the cavity. When the 2nd miner engaged the impact wrench, the head of the bolt seated in the cavity and pinched the injured miner's ring finger, causing a laceration to their right ring finger.

Using overhead hoist with chain and hook, a strap was used to grab hold of the plow body attached to the hook. The hook from the overhead hoist got caught onto an I-Beam which caused tension to build up on the chain lifting up Plow body which then slipped off the I-beam and caused the corner of the Plow Body to strike the employee on lower lip and bottom jaw.