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Employee was using a cutting torch in tight quarters and a spark caught his pants on fire, caused a small burn on leg.
Employee was stepping down off a tractor and missed the step causing him to slip and twist his ankle.
Employee was trying to remove a brass bushing from a shaft and when the first half came out the second half spun down around and caught his finger. Had 4 stitches
EE was checking the resistance of a rotor of a drive motor and pinched his fingers between the rotor and Brake caliper fracturing the tips of 2 fingers.
EE was working on a brake caliper that was locked in his vice and it slipped out and hit his hand. Had 3 stitches put in hand.
EE was running a 992 Cat front-end loader and was loading rock trucks. He was backing away from a truck with his boom in the air, he had not noticed that the keeper had come out of pin housing, which let the boom pin come out. The boom dropped and it shook the operator. Took two days off for soreness.
EE was operating a Blast Hole Drill when a drill steel came lose from the carrousel at the top of drill mast. He and the Mechanic was trying to set it back into the rack when the steel shifted and pinched his wrist between two drill steels. Took him to Hospital where they took xrays and found he had a hairline crack in his wrist.