Working on stone splitter, smashed thumb between two stones.
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Showing all 4While lifting and throwing rock into bins for trash, strained back.
Employee was shaping boulders, and rock hit hard hat, knocking off to side, and rock lacerated scalp.
Employee was turning a rock to put it into the stone splitter. The rock broke and the employee's arm fell into it. The piece that employee fell into had a jagged corner which caused a laceration on left forearm.