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Grinding lacing on a belt. Sparks were flying and with the wind sparks flew in the right eye
While EE was cleaning out the core of the middle cross conveyers, EE was standing halfway up on a 6 foot ladder. While doing this, a rock fell off of the crusher and hit EE in the hard hat. This hit caused EE to fall off the ladder to the ground.
Employee was cleaning the rock piles out of the shoots. Employee was standing on the cross conveyer doing this. Another employee accidentally activated the conveyer, which caused employee to fall from the conveyer to the ground. They landed on their ankle, and this caused the ankle jam/sprain.
EE was removing the screen from the screening plant unit. When EE went to push the screen to the ground, the screen hooked onto EE's sweatshirt and pulled EE off of the catwalk and EE fell to the ground. EE's left leg, left pointer finger, and right elbow were sore from the fall.
EE was clearing out a beaver dam in the area, and ended up scraping the upper right thumb knuckle. EE is not sure what EE scraped it on for sure, but EE did scrape it while clearing out the dam.
When lowing the conveyer, they pulled the pins and it was said that everyone was clear, and this was acknowledged by everyone in the area. However, where EE thought EE's hand was safe was not, and the conveyer was lowered onto EE's left hand. Hand was broken by this.
EE had picked up on the leg of the conveyor with both hands, and removed the pin. When putting it back down, the ledge of the conveyor slipped and pinched tip of EE's middle finger on the left hand. This cut EE's finger open and caused it to bleed.
EE was fixing a wash pump for the wash plant. EE stepped over the hitch of the trailer, and hit their leg on the door of the service truck, which caused EE's leg to be cut. It was the right leg, roughly 3-4 inches above the knee.
EE was moving a water splitter. When EE was pulling it out to move it, the hose bounced back at EE once it was loose. The steel fitting on the end of the hose is what hit EE's forehead and gave EE the cut. Due to the cut, EE then went to the emergency room to see what needed to be done.
Unrolling a conveyer belt. Had to swing it around, and when it unrolled and did a pass it pulled employee's finger in between the pipe and the belt. Got finger stuck in it.
Pulling / lifting a screen for the screen box. When EE pulled up on the screen, EE felt a sharp pain in the midsection, like EE pulled a muscle.
EE was cleaning out the hopper. EE slipped on the belt, causing EE to fall on a corner that was steel. This cut EE's shin. Thought nothing of it at the time, cleaned it, antibiotic ointment, and thought that would be all. 5 days later EE's leg began to hurt, EE went to the doctor, & found out the leg had been infected. This led to further treatment which involved time off.
EE was walking from the backhoe to the loader and slipped and fell on the ice.
Employee unhooked the chain from the conveyor and dropped it over the end. EE was walking back down and the chain accidentally re-hooked on a beam and jerked the conveyor and that is when EE lost balance and fell to the ground on EE's back.
EE was taking large rocks out of the cone crusher and setting them on the ledge so they can throw them out and one of the rocks rolled off the ledge and came in contact with EE's 3rd/Ring Finger on the right hand.
EE was assisting to tear down the screen box. EE got thumb caught between the deflector plate and the screen box.
EE was working on the jaw of the crusher and was holding a piece of it while coworker was fastening bolts when EE's leg slipped out from underneath EE and EE then fell on right leg and knee. They did have the system on Lock out tag out.
Employee was rolling a conveyor belt to the back of the pickup and ee was unable to stop it when it got to the back of the pickup. The belt rolled to the ground and hitting the employee causing ee to fall to the ground and the belt then roll over right leg.
EE was doing the morning inspection and while getting into the loader, the door closed before EE got hand in and the finger got caught between the door frame and the loader.
Replacing roller on conveyor and was tapping clip out of roller when something fell in right eye. EE had safety glasses on but they were fogged up so EE moved them down just a little to let the moisture out of the lenses.
Employee exited the loader without placing hard hat on his head and was removing a stuck rock from the feed conveyor when rock fell and hit employee in the head. A hard hat was provided to the employee and he had it in the loader that he just exited out of to remove the rock.
Holding tail pulley leg on conveyor trying to reinsert pin into leg and the weight of the leg came down and pinched finger between leg & frame of the conveyor. He smashed the tip of his right index finger just before the first knuckle.
Was removing rock from feeder and rock fell off lid and hit him on his forehead causing the laceration.
Was wearing safety glasses and was hand grinding when a foreign object got into his eye.
Rain and strong winds. Employee was preparing to move plant cleaning cut receiving hopper. He slipped and fell into hopper hurting shoulder.
Crew was moving conveyors & testing alignment, when ee saw a build-up of material in hopper of 1 of the conveyors. Ee the climbed on to conveyor & pushed the built-up material with his foot-large chunk of material slid in hopper & ran through hopper where ee's hand was braced causing his finger to be pinched between angle iron & chunk of material