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Employee was standing near head pulley on C-5 and radioed the operator to start the belt. When started the torque arm holding the gear box assembly broke free allowing the assembly to spin forward. The assembly struck the employee in the left leg.
Employee lacerated forearm just below the elbow while running the bagging machine in the Fine Grind Plant. The wound required sutures to close.
Miner was performing maintenance using a propane torch. Miner attempted to get slack in the hoses, hose got caught on a beam which caused the torch to turn towards the miner and crossed their right forearm.
A miner suffered an irritation to right eye while using an oxy/fuel gas torch. The injured miner was working overhead cutting steel and some debris dropped behind the miner's safety glasses. The miner was provided RX ophthalmic ointment to treat the irritation.
Employee was tightening a bolt on a wear plate on a 980G Front End Loader. The hammer employee was using to hold the bolt slipped, causing the bolt to strike right middle finger while being spun by an impact wrench. The contact caused a laceration requiring 7 sutures to close. The employee was not wearing gloves at the time of injury.
Injured employee was on top of the 777C haul truck cutting the bolt with a cutoff wheel to remove mirror. The cutoff wheel caught on the bolt, kicked out and cut left thumb. The wound required sutures to close.
Using acetylene torch to remove pin, burnt into oil cavity of the pin causing the hot oil to flash and come back on burning face
Removing the drill bit from hammer to replace the blow tube using a hydraulic chain wrench, left hand was on wrench when pulling wrench with hydraulic cylinder thumb on left hand was crushed in cylinder to wrench pinning point.
Employee was releasing a quick coupler on the pressure washer hose. Residual pressure in the hose caused it to whip when disconnected. The hose and fitting struck the employee in the face, cutting his lip.
Employee placed pin from tie rod on hub he was under and started using an air hammer to remove bushing. The pin fell and struck employee on the head between safety glasses and hard hat.
Employee was preparing to clean an area of ground near a screen. While standing approximately 10 feet away and to the side of the screen and chute, a rock struck the employee's hard hat resulting in a neck strain and chipped teeth.
While welding on sand screw auger, a small piece of metal slag fell into employee's boot and burned his right ankle.
Employee was replacing the bit on the Ingersoll-Rand T4 drill. He was using his left hand to steady the hammer while he reached inside the cab with his right hand to operate the control to lower the hammer onto the bit. As the hammer was being lowered, it moved downward suddenly pinching the employee's left thumb and index finger between the hammer and the bit.
Employee was welding in the primary feeder hooper and recieved a welding flash burn on his eyes. There were two employees welding at the time.
Bent over cutting up old conveyor truss with a cutting torch and a piece of rust popped up and went behind employee's cutting shield and safety glasses getting into his right eye, treated with eye drops.
Employee was grinding a bore hole on a standard crusher mainframe. The employee put the grinder down, picked up the polisher, looked up to not hit his head on the mainframe and steel fell off his grinding shield. The steel fragments went behind safety glasses and into employees right eye.
EE was pushing pile of dirt with the D8T dozer, he had his coat hanging in the back of dozer which created a blind spot, he went into reverse and backed up about 10 feet, when he back up he didn't see other ee coming in the A40D hual truck with a load of dirt to unload, he backed up into the haul truck, which caused the tracks of the dozer, to collide with front end truck.
Employee was digging out the primary crusher. A rock rolled down from the feeder and struck the employee in the left lower back.
Employee utilizing Oxy Thermal cutting torch to remove wear parts from impact crusher; while cutting, a piece of slag landed on the employee's left knee and burned through his pants & subsequently burned the outside of left knee. Slag traveled down pant leg and burned top of left foot.
Employee changing ball valve on grease line(pressure side). Employee did not release/purge pressure from system prior to attempting to change ball valve. Employee received a high pressure injection injury(grease).
Employee was grinding a piece of steel plate and something got into his right eye. Medication for eye was prescription.
Injured employee was holding wrench on nut to tighten. Another employee was using impact wrench on bolt and when he hit the impact wrench, the injured employee's wrench spun around and pinched his finger between the frame of the crusher and the wrench.
CUTTING WITH ACETELYN TORCH, DUST AND SLAG SPLASHED BACK INTO HIS FACE AND EYES. HE WAS GIVEN RX EYE DROPS
EE WAS OPERATING MOBILE VIBRATOR ON THE NEW PARKING LOT BEHIND THE SHOP. THE NEXT DAY HE MADE COMMENTS OF HIS BACK BEING STIFF. ON 08/08/05, HE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS BACK AND WENT TO HIS DR ABOUT THE BACK PAIN. DR RESTRICTED HIM FROM WORK UNTIL THE 17TH OR UNTIL THE NEXT CHECK-UP.
Employee was burned by a dropped cutting torch.
HE WAS CUTTING ANGLE IRON WHICH DEFLECTED OFF A CROSS ANGLE & LANDED ON HIS FOOT.
EE WAS CUTTING WITH A PLASMA CUTTING TORCH ON A RUSTY TANK. BOTTOM. HE WAS WEARING FUEL FACE CUTTING SHIELD WITH SAFETY GLASSES. AERT RUST MAY HAVE COME FROM BEHIND AND LANDED IN HIS GLASSES O R IT COULD HAVE TURN THE DUST PARTICLES IN THE AIR.
STEEL SLAG IN RIGHT EYE WHILE WELDING.
EE WAS REMOVING A BOLT FROM A MOTOR WHEN HIS FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE IMPACT AND THE MOTOR.
EE USING HAND GRINDER, DEBRIS FLEW INTO RIGHT EYE.