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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.
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.