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Employee was working in a tight space using a mini skid steer to remove sand. The employee backed up and hit their arm on a support beam. The employees hand pressed against the machine causing a fracture in their right wrist.
The production operator transported a hot cooler breach hopper. When the production operator let their gloved left hand down. The sand flowed into the glove causing second degree burns on the left hand.
Miner used a forklift to move hopper filled with hot sand from a kiln system. Once at the tipping location, miner lifted hopper to shoulder height, got out of the forklift and released the lever to tip the load. The hot sand spread out radially and ran up EE's pant leg, burning EE's skin above the boot and sock line. Diagnosis was partial thickness burn of lower right leg.