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EE turned around to exit the skid loader, EE stepped down from the platform onto the flat part of the bucket, EE's left foot somehow slipped from out beneath EE, and EE landed on the ground and heard a pop and EE knew EE hurt EE's ankle.
EE was removing the screen cloth from the top deck of the screenbox it was stuck so they tugged on it and their right index finger struck the frame of the screenbox, causing a open wound cut, no stitches.
Working on Breaker tightening down the feeder crossbar with a chain & binder when hook on binder broke off and hit EE in the right corner of mouth.
Cleaning Cone w/harness on, used shovel for support and it broke, EE fell onto railing onto EE's face and EE's sunglasses cut eye cheek and EE broke EE's nose.
Slipped and Twisted Right Knee.
Worker was trying to start electric water pump and won't start so he reset pump and pulled start lever on electric box and box blew up knocking worker backwards and breaking left thumb.
Slipped with Knife doing Belt Repair
EE was knocking mud off a roller, missed the roller hitting his left thumb. His left thumb has a laceration/open fracture.
Removing Jig from Impactor Blow Bars, he pulled back on it & it came back faster then he could not get his hand out of the way. The jig smashed his hand between the jig and the cat walk on impactor.
Employee was putting out a pump to remove surface water. He slipped on an ice chunk and fell. Employee sprained left shoulder and bruised left elbow.
Raising a conveyor with a cable ring gear style crank. The handle of the crank slipped out of his hands and the handle hit the top of his left foot, causing a metatarsal fracture.
He was running to shut off feeder on breaker; while on his way he stepped wrong and hurt his left knee. He continued working that day. Oct 31, he came to work and realized that he needed to have a doctor look at his knee. Doctor told him to take it easy over the weekend and let the swelling go down while using crutches, and follow up with him on Monday, Nov 3rd.
Employee was on cat walk pulling cable back. Cable was stuck on something and when it released from what it was caught on, employee fell backwards, losing balance. He fell through the opening between the railings, which was about an 8'-10' fall. Resulted in an injury to the head and left shoulder.
Employee was climbing down the ladder on the loader; he bumped his elbow on the ladder. He continued working and let us know about it as an FYI. On Thursday afternoon he re-bumped his elbow. As of Thursday evening he was just staying home to rest it. Friday, turns out, his elbow had an infection underneath skin. There was no broken skin from either elbow bump.
An experienced miner of 28 years was operating a feed loader digging shot rock from the bank to feed the crusher. Approx. 7:30 am he struck a hard spot in the bank and the loader came to a sudden stop. He experienced a sharp pain in his lower back, and he could not move his legs without a lot of pain.
Stepping down onto a fuel tank, lost balance and had to jump approx. 6 feet, landing improper and injured right knee when landed.
Heart attack - Death.