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Employee stated they had a cut on left hand & thigh (doesn't know how they got there) and when cleaning the hopper on the sweeper with the non-potable water, water got into both cuts. Employee indicated that the non-potable water caused an infection.
The employee is an office employee, not a miner. EE was moving a small concrete statue that was dropped off by a customer for recycling in the parking lot area. The employee walked up to the area in the parking lot to place the statue and as EE walked away, EE's foot slid and EE rolled EE's left ankle.
Employee was trying to loosen a 3-inch coupler. They pulled the pipe wrench and put their whole body into it. As they pulled down and it started to loosen, they felt a muscle pull on the right side of lower back.
The employee was conducting plant maintenance. The employee was pushing on lever to operate a gate door on screen 1. Lever would not move the gate due to debris around the gate. The employee pushed harder on the lever to get the gate to move. The employee felt a sharp pain in the lower back at the time the gate finally moved into the desired position.
Employee was cutting a conveyor belt on the ground. Employee knelt down onto a nail that was still in the mat that was used to secure the conveyor belt while in its rolled up position. Employee sustained a puncture wound to EE's left knee.
Employee was doing her daily weighmaster scale duties when she started to say her left hand hurt.
Employee had belt on the ground. Cutting with left hand using a utility knife, when the knife jumped over the straight edge & cut inner top part of right thumb.
Steel fabricating all morning while installing part I got a sliver of debris in my eye.
EE was working at her computer when she noticed that her right hand was hurting and swollen.
Employee was washing his face after grinding a pulley and got some fines and dust in his left eye.
Employee used head of left foot to stomp down on lever locking bucket on bobcat.
Employee was clearing trees and brush with a chain saw. While clearing debris with his right hand, he held the running saw with his left hand and it touched his leg.
Was hand pickng debris ofof conveyor belt. Wind was blowing cross ways. Debris got in the side of the glasses and rock or debris was under his eye. Flushed at eye wash station and used another eye wash at home but still sore next day.
Employee was helping load a piece of equipment into a trailer with a crane when the equipment swung left pinning his inner left leg against trailer wall.
Mechanic fell as a result of pulling on a piece of metal while testing integrity of the weld. Said employee fell to the ground and was struck by the metal in the back and neck after hitting the ground.
Lifting camper shell onto truck bed. After putting camper shell on truck bed EE had a sharp shooting pain in r upper shoulder.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE BELTS ON THE JAW CRUSHER, THE MOTOR NEEDED TO BE REPOSITIONED. WHILE REPOSITIONING THE MOTOR, A BOLT BROKE WHICH CAUSED THE MOTOR TO FALL, SMASHING EE FINGER BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND GUARD