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October 5, 2009 TN · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Contractor was waiting to remove stone from discharge table of stone splitter. When the stone rolled on the discharge table after being split, he had his right hand resting on the table and the stone rolled onto his middle finger. When he reacted and pulled his hand away, he pulled the skin off the tip of his finger, requiring sutures to his right middle finger.

June 1, 2007 TN · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was placing a sawed stone slab onto the cutting table with a vacuum lift at the same time he was placing a hand tool onto the table when the stone released from the vacuum and fell onto his left hand. His left index finger was broken and cut as well as a cut to the base of the left middle finger, both cuts required sutures.

April 24, 2007 TN · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contractor was placing piece of stone into stone splitter. While lowering top jaw of machine, the stone fell forward. The Contractor tried to stop stone from falling out of position. The splitter teeth then contacted his fingers. When he felt pressure on his fingers, he jerked his hand back, pulling the skin off the tips of two fingers. The two fingertips required sutures.

January 10, 2007 TN · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Struck against a moving object

Operator was moving the trackhoe from one work area to another, went over crest of hill and when hoe leveled off, it bumped the ground and he felt a slight tightening in his back. Pain increased over next 2 days and he reported the accident on 1/12/07 and was sent to the doctor. The doctor's diagnosis was "low back pain/strain".

July 17, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Sawing a pallet, piece of metal went into his eye.

May 13, 2005 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trying to get the hose to the drill unhooked from a rock. When he freed the hose from the rock the hose twisted around his right hand and tore and burned his skin on his right hand.

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