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Employee was cutting a piece of metal from the old plant, the metal had some spring tension on it. When cut through, the piece of metal sprung and hit the employee's leg just below the knee on the right leg. There was some swelling at the point of impact. Employee worked the rest of the day and requested to have the leg checked out the following day.

Pulling belt on tugger machine, hook broke causing tugger to move forward and sling chain, hitting employee on leg and ricochet into mouth.

Employee was using an air hammer to remove a bushing. The bushing splintered striking the employee in the face. A small sliver of metal was embedded into the employees forehead.

Cleaning a chute at the lime plant using a dead-blow mallet, a square-point, short-handled shovel, and an air wand employee attempted to use hand to remove a larger piece of material. This task requires the motor to continue to run to allow for more free-falling material to be moved into the chute until the hopper is empty/clear.

Excavator operator was loading haul truck operated. The truck was nearly loaded when a large sized rock rolled from excavator bucket and fell landing on the rear of the haul truck bed causing haul truck to rock backward jarring operator in EE's seat.

Employee was cutting wood for the trucking/mining shop wood furnace. The employee had cut a tree down. When cutting a branch off of the downed tree, the branch kicked back towards the employee striking him in the upper abdomen. Hospital observations had taken place, no injuries were found. The employee is on light duty for two weeks.

The injured worker was using a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder to plunge cut a cast bearing on the tail pulley of BC-2. This plunge cut would allow access to the steel part of the bearing, which would allow the use of a torch. The grinder got in a bind and kicked back and struck the worker on the safety glasses of his left eye down the side of the nose.

ASSOCIATE HAD COMPLETED CHANGING TIRE ON EQUIPMENT AND WAS CHAINING BLOCKS BACK ONTO TRUCK WHEN CHAIN TENSIONER KICKED BACK AND HIT ASSOCIATE IN FACE.