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After using plasma cutter, maintenance personnel lifted their face shield dislodging metal dust onto their face. Some of the dust went behind their safety glasses and into their left eye. Metal debris was removed from eye and antibiotic drops prescribed.
Employee placing pallet into palletizer. Pallet nail became caught on chain conveyor causing the pallet to stop suddenly and strain the employee's back.
Employee was manually installing roof bolts. Was in a man basket inserting mechanical roof bolts, using an impact to install bolts, and using torque wrench to tighten roof bolts per spec. Shoulder became sore in the process of setting approximately 80 roof bolts in a shift and was still painful 2 weeks later so employee reported incident on 8/16/2020.
Employee was working on changing the belts on separator fan on mill 4. They had locked everything out and tried. As they were removing the belts the fan rotated and smashed the right thumb and tore off the fingernail on the left thumb as well as the skin. It looks like with other equipment running airflow caused the fan to move.
The employee was working on a single drill cylinder holding valve and the hydraulic pressure behind it pushed the employee's finger into the main boom causing a laceration to the left finger. Employee received stiches in finger.
Employee was using a pneumatic impact wrench to repair equipment. When air was supplied to the wrench, the front facing exhaust stream of the wrench stirred up debris which was blown into the employee's eye.
Employee was grinding off a bearing and a piece of debris flew into left eye. Not first reported Friday because employee believed it was just a piece of stone, not steel. Employee was wearing safety glasses and grinding shield.
Employee ran a jack hammer to break up the dried up/hardened sludge that had built up on the floor of the mill on February 1, 2016. On February 9, 2016, employee reported to supervisor that employee had sought medical treatment the previous day for swelling in the groin area.