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Two Mobile Equipment Mechanics were removing the old cutting blades from a yard loader with a torch. They did not have it blocked from underneath as they have been instructed. When the steel fell, it bounced/ricocheted onto mechanic's foot. Both employees were disciplined for unsafe work practices.

Employee was using an excavator to dig a boulder out of the pit floor, and the bucket slipped off the boulder, jarring the excavator and causing a whiplash effect.

While cutting lifting eyes with a cutting torch, the metal fell off the table. The employee reacted and grazed left shin with the torch causing 1st and 2nd degree burns to an area approximately 3" x 5".

Employee sustained welder's keratitis to the outside corner of his left eye. While welding beside another employee who was also welding, he lifted the hood on his protective helmet to chip slag from the work area. The employee beside him struck his welding rod to the work area on the left side of the injured employee. He reported it the next morning.

EE WAS LOOKING UP TO UNTIE A ROPE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A CUTTING TORCH WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM A SCREEN ABOVE HIM & HIT HIM IN THE EYE.

EE WAS CUTTING A WORN WEAR PLATE FROM A KAWASAKI LOADER BUCKET WITH A CARBON ARCH WELDER. HE CUT ONE SIDE FREE AND STARTED TO CUT THE OTHER SIDE WHEN THE PLATE GAVE WAY AND FELL ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT JUST BEHIND THE STEEL TOE AREA OF HISBOOT. THERE WAS A SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND AND A FRACTURE OF TWO BONES IN THE FOOT THAT REQUIRED SURGICAL REPAIR.