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An EE was assisting a welding with grinding operations on equipment. Shortly after the work was conducted, the employee experienced irritation in the right eye. EE was seen in a clinic and it was determined that no foreign object was present in the eye, but EE did have an abrasion. The employee was prescribed antibiotic ointment to address the irritation.

Employee was using a Grinder to cut flat stock backing strip, had both hands on the grinder when the grinder kicked back and EE's left hand slipped and cut EE's left index finger. Strip was on the ground when cutting.

Employee was setting the brake on machine, the holding clamp was in the upright position. The Cutter head moved into the open clamp causing the clamp to fall striking employee's right hand on the middle and ring finger breaking the tip of the middle one and lacerating the middle and ring finger that required stitches.

Employees had rigged up four (4) Liners with separate rigging to hoist out of the hopper. One of the liners came taut with the crane earlier than the others which rotated the liner that hit the employee's ankle.

Temp worker setting up modular trailer. Using a circular saw while kneeling on ground when ground gave a little and the saw kicked back & cut right index finger.

Employee was removing bolts on cutting edges of a loader with an impact wrench while attempting to hold the nut with his left hand resulting in a laceration to his left palm.

Loading drill pipe to advance hole, ee attached a drill sling to two different rods. He realized the problem and signaled the driller to stop. The driller immediately stopped and began to lower that rod. When the tension released, the rod fell. EE tried catching the falling drill rod. The force of the falling drill rod, fractured ee left four fingers on impact.

The employee was holding a bolt in place using a hammer, while another worker was using an impact wrench to loosen the nut on a bolt, when the employee slipped off of the bolt head letting the bolt drop down while the impact wrench was spinning the nut off the bolt. The bolt pushed down when he slipped and was spinning contacting the employees thumb cutting through his gloves.

While the dozer was pushing the windrow down the 2:1 slope, the operator backed up to catch the next windrow, a rock was buried out of sight. When the dozer climbed over it, dozer started to slide sideways & due to nature of the slope, the dozer rolled over. The operator suffered a laceration to his head & was taken to the hospital. Received staples to close the laceration.

A Maintenance mechanic was cutting the rear frame of a pickup truck using an oxy/acetylene torch. As he cut the frame, he cut into the gas lines that lead to the gas tank. The tank pushed fire out of the inlet port inflicting first degree burns on his right hand. He as not wearing welding gloves only cotton/leather mixed (regular work glove).

An employee was air arcing a piece of wear iron out of a chute, when the iron shifted and cut his right forearm.

On 4/20/05, an employee was tramming a drill in the pit, when he drove over a rock jarring his back. He did not want to seek medical treatment at that time. In June he stated he wanted to see a physcian. He was referred to a back specialist and on August 17th 2005 he had a minor back procedure performed.

The employee was grinding on a loader bucket, when he recieved flying debris in his left eye.

WHILE STANDING NEAR A TRUCK LOOKING AT A LOAD, THE LEFT SIDE OF AN EZ-LIFT SNAPPED AND HIT HER IN THE BACK.

EE WAS CLEANING THE MUD BUILDUP IN THE CHUTE, HE WAS TENDING THE AIR HOSE TO THE AIR CHIPPER. HE SAW THE FROZEN MATERIAL (11' X 2 1/2' APPX.) COMING DOWN TOWARD HIM AND TRIED TO MVOE OUT OF TH E WAY. THE MATERIAL CAME DOWN AND FEACTURED HIS ARM.

EE USING CUTTING TORCH IN RIGHT HAND, CUTTING A CRUSHER MANTLE. WHEN HE MOVED THE TORCH ACROSS THE MANTLE IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIS LEFT GLOVED HAND. BLOWING A HOLE IN THE GLOVE AND CAUSING A SECOND DEGREE BURN ON HIS PALM.