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Employee was cleaning out a hopper from shipment to Pogo Mine. The last item was a piece of "C" channel known as a swivel foot. The Injured Personnel reached across the hopper and stood up the swivel foot. He lost his grip on the swivel foot and it fell against the hopper striking his right index finger.
Welder was positioning chute on welding table to cut a straight edge for installation of flange. As he and a helper were turning the piece, the chute was standing on end. As chute cleared edge of table it fell toward open side and slid down front of table catching welder's right pointer finger, breaking the bone and lacerating the finger requiring 4 stitches and splinting.
He was getting off an excavator on the right side coming down the steps and caught his right middle finger in the step.
Employee was cutting shrubbery with a machete; subsequently the machete hit a rock and bounced off of the rock and struck his (r) leg causing a laceration. The laceration was cleaned and 4 stitches were required to close the wound. He was given anti-biotics and revisted the PA in the morning. The dressing was changed and he was released to work.