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Torching wear plate, guard broke free causing employee to work to stay standing.
Using a 70 lb. jackhammer to release a wear plate in a Cedar Rapids MVP 280 portable crushing plant, cone. the jackhammer slipped causing the right hand little finger nail to bend back away from the finger. Stitches were needed to reattach grown plate of finger nail.
EE was welding a line for a ready mix hopper. The tack weld he made failed and metal shifted, pinching his left index finger between stell liner and hopper, resulting in a partial amputation and nail evulsion.