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Injured worker suffered a right hand injury while EE and a second worker were drilling out a piece of rubber conveyor belting. Injured employee required four stitches to close wound, and was released by Urgent Care for return to light duty work same day.
Worker was grinding on a metal "spoon" attachment to a skidsteer loader, when they were hit in the eye by some of the grindings.
Worker said was carrying a crusher screen up to a conveyor deck, when EE felt a popping sensation in the groin area. EE pushed on the area where EE experienced the popping sensation to suppress the protrusion.
Worker says EE was climbing a ladder to access area of crusher when EE felt a "poke" in EE's knee. Worker has experienced instability in EE's knee.
Miner had previously been torch cutting a hole into a plate on the jaw crusher when he inadvertently grabbed an area on the plate that was still hot.
Miner was loading scrap metal into a dumpster via a skid steer loader. When raising loader arms to dump into dumpster, one of the loading forks came loose from loader, bounced off of dumpster and into the cab of the loader, striking miner on the leg. Miner was left with deep cut on his shin.
Injured worker not an Employee. Came on site driving dump truck for customer. Got out of his truck to remove some rock that was stuck in his tailgate, and lost control of the tailgate, which slammed shut on his opposite hand.
I was grinding a metal tube an a flake of metal got into my left eye
Workers were hoisting track onto excavator, when a chain tightened and swung around and struck injured worker on his wrist.