Employee was using a knife to strip pieces of rubber conveyor belting when EE's hand slipped cutting EE's left thumb resulting in seven sutures.
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Showing all 6Employee was vulcanizing a belt splice when several high tension restraints failed causing several UBRx beams to be displaced. Employee received lacerations on the head.
Employee was cutting a piece of conveyor belting with a knife when EE cut EE's left small finger resulting in a laceration that required three sutures.
Employee was using a grinder to buff a piece of conveyor belt when EE's left hand slipped and contacted the grinder wheel resulting in a laceration to EE's left hand.
Injured employee was helping another employee make a repair to a dozer with a pry bar. The bar slipped out of the other employees hand and struck the injured employee in the mouth resulting in a broken tooth.
Contract employee was pulling material out of the bed of a pickup, while up on the bed EE stepped on a piece of teflon material losing footing and fell off the edge of the tailgate landing on the cement floor. Cause of this injury was awareness. Compliance with rules/regs, PPE, mining equipment was not a factor, miner proficiency may have been a factor.