While hand palletizing Flat rock / landscape stone EE felt like EE pulled a muscle in EE's left groin area. EE continued to work the rest of that day. That was on a Friday. Monday EE came back to work and worked a 1/2 day and alerted us to the accident EE had on Friday. I sent EE to the ER to get checked out for a possible hernia
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Showing all 3Employee / Crew member decided to load a piece of stone on a 3ft splitter table by hand instead of waiting on a machine (skid steer) to load table, resulting in a pulled muscle in his lower back.
While pushing flat rock / landscape stone to the 3 ft splitter to dimensionalize stone, employee felt pain & discomfort in left shoulder. He worked till lunch at 11:00 am and then decided to go to Dr. due to discomfort / pain in that shoulder. Conditions in that area were dry, partly cloudy and 30 degrees.