While holding the belt the injured worker re positioned a hand to secure the belt from moving, the worker cutting the belt continued cutting the blade moved & cut the left hand behind the index finger. The injured worker did have their PPE Cut Glove on during the incident.
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Showing all 8Lab tech was in the laboratory, walking into the mill testing area from the main room. When transitioning through the doorway from the main room into the mill testing area, the miner slipped on the tile walking surface causing the miner to fall to the floor.
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.
At 18:35 on July 28, 2022, A utility operator, was completing EE's pre-shift inspection on the CAT forklift and dropped EE's pen. The employee crouched down and leaned forward, putting EE's hand on the floor for balance and began to slide forward on the sand atop the concrete floor, causing EE to dislocating EE's shoulder.
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 was moving a sand tilt hopper using a forklift. Once the hopper sand contents were discharged, the hopper did not return to its upright position. Miner then parked and dismounted forklift and pushed hopper back in an upright position, straining EE's shoulder.
Shoulder sprain resulting from manual labor removing lids from air slides.
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.