Employee caught left hand pinky finger between the drive belt and pulley of small conveyor. The injury appeared more severe than basic first-aid therefore employee was taken to local ER and had to have stitches for finger injury. Impact and cut resistant gloves were in use at time of injury.
An accident occurred when a shot of 37 holes was detonated in the pit. The employee was properly contained inside a steel blast shelter at the time of the detonation. However, the blast shelter was improperly placed and rolled on its side following the detonation. The employee suffered 3 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a broken bone in his neck and on his left ear.
Employees were in the process of changing troughing rollers on stacker conveyor #044672 at time of the incident. Two of the employees were pulling the rollers out when roller dropped mashing employee's finger between it and the conveyor framework.
Employee let his supervisor know that he thought he had something in his eye. He tried to flush his eye with eye wash. He then went to the doctor and a small partical (rust) was removed using a medical instrument. The employee was wearing safety glasses and hard hat (PPE)during his duty shift.