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Miner was processing a slab of stone on the hydraulic splitter when EE rolled the stone back a piece fell off and hit EE's steel toed boot on top and bruised the top of EE's foot.
Injured person was running a hydraulic stone splitter for the purpose of dimensionalizing landscape stone / flat rock. EE's hand was under a pinch point and when operator of splitter controls went to engage splitter jaws.....injured person pinched the 3 middle fingers on right hand severely bruising them and a minor cut on middle finger.
It was a dry warm day and Employee was running a hydraulic stone splitter making Dimension type stone for Landscape type rock (Flatrock). When splitter came down to split stone a small piece hit Employee in right cheek causing Employee to fall backward and hit the back of Employee's head on a pallet causing cut to the back of head as well.
While holding a piece of stone on our Hydraulic stone splitter to be snapped / split into dimension stone. When stone was snapped it jarred EE's Right hand / wrist. Thinking EE's wrist was only sprained EE continued to work the rest of the day. Later that evening while at home EE's wrist continued to hurt and EE went to the hospital and Dr's determined it was broken.
While running the Stone splitter to make Dimensional stone. Employee laid right hand on the power feed conveyor/roller table that you control with a handle. Employee then engaged control that makes conveyor/roller table move forward and table pulled EE's hand in between 2 rollers and wedged EE's hand in between the 2 rollers temporarily and bruised hand severely.
Said employee was running our excavator / trac hoe pulling up flat rock slabs 9" in thickness and rock slipped out of the bucket allowing rock to break causing a small piece of stone (approximately 3/4" diameter) to fly up and hit employee on the right side of his head in between his eye and ear near his temple causing nausea and dizziness..