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April 3, 2025 MA · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Goshen Stone Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was splitting stone, and the teeth were too high on the bucket of the excavator. The stone fractured and folded landing on EE's ankle, between two stones. EE was using a Chicago pneumatic jack hammer model CP4123

October 25, 2021 MA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Goshen Stone Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Stone fractured when splitting

May 29, 2013 MA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Goshen Stone Company Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was splitting a piece of stone and the stone had a fracture in it, when the stone broke a piece landed on his foot.

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