Employee was on the rock splitter running the controls, when employee smashed a finger between the teeth of the splitter and the rock the employee was splitting.
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Showing all 11The injured employee had their finger pinched in between the splitter tooth and a rock resulting in a laceration that required stitches.
Miner was operating a splitter when the rock that was split a rock came off and hit miner in the face.
Employee was working on the MEC splitter, ee went to turn the stone over lost balance reached out with right hand to the top head as it was coming up and finger was smashed between the top head and the c frame
Rock broke between splitter and table causing a smashed finger between rocks.
Employee placed employee's hand on the rock in the splitter to keep it stable when Criss cut splitter split the rock the piece fell on employees hand.
While splitting stone employee's thumb was crushed between rock and the blade.
Employee reached into rock splitter while in operation, table lifted up and caught hand between splitter and rock.
While working on a stone splitter employee was pushing a large rock down the rollers on the splitter and felt a pull under left shoulder blade
Employee was loading rock by hand onto the rock splitter machine table; his right pinky finger was smashed between the table and the rock.
While splitting a rock on the rock splitter table, the rock fragmented sending a piece into the left forearm of the worker. The arm was punctured by the fragment.