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Employee was stapling poultry netting to a pallet. The board EE was stapling split, EE slipped and punctured EE's left wrist with the staple gun.
Employee was chipping rock and missed with the hammer, resulting in an injury to index finger.
EE was loading the table in the jag shop with slabs of rock. There were two slabs on the table, the top one was not setting flat. EE then picked up the top slab with a rock bar to get the small rocks out from under it. The rock bar slipped off crushing two fingers under the slab on EE's left hand.
EE was helping push a rock manually with a rock bar at this time another EE started to chop a rock at this time a small rock broke off of the rock that was being chopped and came back and struck EE in the right Hand and middle and ring finger causing EE to have a small cut on EE's fingers.
worker was removing rock from a conveyor to place on a pallet. Another worker working across from IE was doing the same. one reached to grab a rock the other was going to break a rock and make smaller with a hammer. They both went for the same rock the EE with the hammer struck the left hand middle finger causing a smashed tip of finger.