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Employee was splitting rock on stone splitter. Had hand on top of rock, hit the table tooth reset lever to bounced the table up and pinched fingers in between the rock and splitter teeth. Caused lacerations and fingertip fracture to right middle and index finger.
Employee was feeding stone onto conveyer into saw. Smashed fingers between rock and saw door, causing laceration to right middle and ring fingers. Required stitches.
Employee was holding and pushing stone forward on splitter table, when the splitter was engaged, rock table came up and caught right hand index and middle fingers, crushing them between table and stone. Middle finger suffered partial fingertip and nail amputation and slight fracture to bone.