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Scooping up rip rap on unstable and unleveled ground, caused loader to move side to side, causing it to injure his back. Did not inform Supervisor about injury until 8-15-12.
Miner was moving fence posts. While pounding a post in the ground. The post pounder came off the top of the post, the miner fell back and the pounder hit him on the top of his head.
Changing a screen and pounding it into place, he smashed his thumb between hammer and screen.
While changing a cone liner employee went around the hand rail to bar the ring gear. He slipped and fell 10 feet, landed on his feet and broke 1 leg and cracked the heel on his other leg.
EE leaned on the hand rail of the dry plant. The rail broke and he fell about 4 feet into the hopper of the under belt. His hard hat came off and the rail hit him in the head.
Employee was pushing cone motor to tighten the v-belt with a porta-power. As it got tight the ram jumped out. EE used hand to stop it from hitting me in another place.
Employee started up the ladder to the screen deck, caught his forehead on the overflow pipe that comes from the screw to the sump tank, causing whiplash.
Employee was changing out the seat in the dozer and it smashed the fingers on his right hand when he dropped his end.
EE WAS CHANGING SEGMENTS ON A LOADER BUCKET AND CUT THE INDEX FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON A BOLT HEAD THAT HAD BEEN FILED TO SHARP EDGE FROM WEAR.
CUTTING PLASTIC SCREEN, BLADE SLIPPED, CUT LEFT ARM (KNIFE). (DOCTOR CLOSED 5 SIMPLE SUTURES.)
ROCK FELL AND HIT HAND, DIAGNOSIS CONTUSION AND ABRASION TO RIGHT THUMB.