Normal shoveling task, it was EE's first day and EE was being trained on task. EE's left elbow popped and EE lost strength in EE's arm and hand. Supervisor took employee to the urgent care to have it looked at.
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Showing all 4Operator was operating a Komatsu WA 500, driving from the fuel island back to the area EE was working. EE hit a rutted area and the front end loader bounced, causing the operator to hit EE's head and jamb EE's thumb into the joystick.
Contractor operating a telehandler near the dry plant load-out struck a contract employee in the lower back with the forks.
After a bad storm went through the area, the employee was shoveling sand off the plant concrete slab when a football size chunk of sand fell from a hopper that EE got close to, striking EE on top of the head and hurting EE's neck.