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October 18, 2024 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Buechel Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was working inside of the CMF building on splitter machine #7. While removing a stone from the splitter, the scrap guard between the discharge conveyor and the bottom row of teeth popped up, then came down on finger, pinching it between the scrap guard and bottom row of teeth. The left index finger was cut and fractured.

January 30, 2024 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by falling object

The injured employee was cutting rocks and they smashed their left ring finger with a rock. IMPACT/BLUNT FORCE INJURIES.

February 9, 2023 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Improper hand/finger placement.

August 10, 2021 WI · Metal/Non-Metal bagging, package operator MACHINERY
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by falling object

Employee was work on splitter numbers 8 and 7 when EE picked a rock off the line and EE was opening a seam on the rock and a piece fell off and struck EE's right foot.

March 14, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Buechel Stone Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE is a Splitter Operator at the Chilton Quarry indoor within the Chilton Manufacturing Facility. EE was assembling boxes. EE put a nail in one section followed with a second nail. The nail gun then jumped and landed on top of EE's left hand. When the gun hit EE's hand, a nail fired into the top of EE's left hand as EE's finger was still on the trigger.

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