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February 15, 2024 WI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I lifted a stone from the conveyor belt that weighed about 100 pounds to place it on the pallet, and I immediately felt a crack in my back. I told the material handler about the accident & asked the material handler to let the supervisor know. I continued working slowly and after I took my lunch break and went back to the work area, the pain in my back was worse.

February 5, 2024 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck against stationary object

I took a stone from the splitter table that was 10" to change its position, and when I held it in my hands, the thumb of my right-hand bent.

January 25, 2024 NC · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp. · Struck by rolling or sliding object

Rock rolled down the Sherpa onto the splitter table; employee was not able to move fast enough to get hand out of the way.

December 4, 2023 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by rolling or sliding object

I was picking up and moving a stone piece when it slipped out of hand and slid down my arm. It cut my arm.

December 1, 2023 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE had split a piece of stone in half, slid the top half back off of the bottom half, and pinched their finger in the process.

October 31, 2023 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by falling object

Employee was taking a stone from the pallet to cut it on the machine and another stone from the pallet fell on their right thumb resulting in a nondisplaced fracture of distal phalanx of the right thumb.

March 9, 2022 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by flying object

Another employee threw a snowball in the production facility and struck employee in the ear.

April 28, 2021 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee works inside our Chilton Manufacturing Building in the Splitter Department. Employee operates the splitter and moves stone before it is split open.

October 1, 2019 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee is a Splitter Operator at our indoor Chilton Manufacturing Facility. Employee was handling two stones when EE pinched EE's left pinky/5th finger between the stones. The pinch caused an laceration to EE's left pinky/5th finger.

May 23, 2019 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee is a Splitter Operator at our indoor Chilton Manufacturing Facility. Employee was making a cut of the stone. When the cut of the stone was complete, the stone bounced back causing a finger to be caught between the two stones as the left hand was up on the rollers.

April 30, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee is a Splitter Operator at the Chilton indoor within the Chilton Manufacturing Facility. Employee pulled a stone back on the rollers in order to reposition it for further splitting. In this process, EE pinched EE's finger between that particular stone and a stone that was behind EE on the rollers resulting a laceration and abrasion to EE's left ring finger.

April 24, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee is a Saw Operator at the Chilton Quarry indoor within the Chilton Manufacturing Facility. Employee lifted a thirty pound stone from the Saw. In the process of setting it on the table next to EE, EE caught EE's finger between the rock and the corner of table resulting in a laceration and break to the right middle finger.

January 26, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee is a Splitter Operator at the Chilton Quarry indoor within the Chilton Manufacturing Facility. Employee was pulling a stone towards self when the stone slipped causing employee to punch finger between two stones. The pinch resulted in a laceration to left pinky finger.

August 17, 2017 WI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee works at the Oakfield Quarry as a loader operator. While banding a pallet in the quarry, the employee cut the right thumb and index finger. The banding did not spool as freely as the employee was expecting and when they pulled harder on the banding, it slipped through their hand cutting it.

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