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Miner placed hand on top of bolt while running the impact wrench causing a laceration to right palm.
The injured miner was using a Caterpillar D-10T2 bulldozer to push material parallel to a bermed bench. While traveling in reverse the dozer drove off the downhill side of the bench and rolled over, ending up on its tracks. The total damage to the D-10 is unknown, but the machine appears to be structurally sound and repairable.
The Miner was using a handheld grinder on steel without safety glasses and a face shield. A steel shaving contacted EE's right eye.
Worker was cutting a steel chute on a crushing plant with an oxygen/acetylene torch. He was not wearing any eye or face protection. A particle struck him in the left eye. The particle was removed by a doctor with a cotton swab.
Worker was trying to remove the bit from an Ingersoll-Rand 3" drill with a 16" pipe wrench. He cycled the drill and with the bit spinning freely in the jaws of the pipe wrench he grasped the wrench. When he grasped the wrench the jaws engaged on the bit pinning the ring finger of his right hand between the wrench and the dust guard of the drill.
Worker was backing up a bulldozer. The machine rocked backwards and the worker's body motion went foreward causing a sharp pain in his lower back.
Worker was manually rotating the electric motor to #19 jaw in search of part numbers. Due to the counter balance of the jaw, the electric motor reversed rotation and the worker's thumb was caught in between the fan and the motor housing.
Working alone changing cutting edges on a Kowasaki loader, taking old bolts out, a bolt had a sharp edge. It spun around cutting his finger on the left hand.