EE was splitting rock with a hammer & chisel. He bent over to turn a rock on it's side and he felt a pop in his lower back.
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Showing all 17EMPLOYEE WAS LOCKING TRASH BIN IN PLACE. HE HIT HIS HEAD ON HANDLE WHEN HE BENT OVER.
Employee was picking up a rock when he felt a pain in his back that extended into his leg. He just wanted to go home and rest for a while, but did finally agree to go to the Dr.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING DOWN SOME WOODEN PALLETS WHEN A PIECE OF WOOD HIT HIM ON HIS NOSE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WHICH PREVENTED THE INJURY FROM BEING WORSE.
EE was splitting stone. He stood up the next piece of stone he was going to split. The stone made some movement, slipped and smashed his 2 fingers against another stone.
Two employees were lifting a rock to place it on a pallet. When they placed the stone on the pallet, EE said he felt a pain in his lower back.
Employee was moving a rock when he dropped it. The rock hit his leg just above the right ankle, slid down and pinned the ankle against another stone.
Picked up rock to move from pallet to conveyor. The rock broke into 2 pieces. One of the pieces fell onto the right ring finger and smashed it causing the finger to need sutures.
05-24-12 Employee was moving stone and felt a pain in his back. He did not report and continued working thru the day. 05-25-12 Employee worked thru the day and did not report. 05-30-12 Employee came to work and reported injury from 05/24/12 and requested to go to doctor. He was immediately sent to doctor and then went home for the day.
Picking up a stone and another stone fell on right hand.
While loading material on a conveyor belt, felt a pain in back when lifting stone.
Lifted a stone to his waist and turned to put stone on a pallet.
Injury was lifting a rock up on its side so he could split it and he said he felt something pull in his side. He said it happened about 2:00 pm but it did not hurt very bad so he did not report it immediately. About 3:00pm he went and told his supervisor and was sent to the Doctor immediately.
Employee said he was loading the conveyor belt that leads to the guillotine. He bent over to pick up a rock and felt a pulling in his stomach. He was wearing his back belt.
Loading stone feed table with rock approximately 40lb did not move finger/hand when setting on table.
Employee was pallitizing stone turned rock pinched finger between stone.
After splitting some rocks, one of the split rocks fell against a leg.