Employee was picking stone, foot slipped and he fell on right side.
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Showing all 13Employee running excavator, swarm of bees came into cab, was stung by bee, jumped out of cab, landed on feet and twisted right knee.
Walking up hill gathering stone, foot went into hole or between two stones and rock hit left leg below the knee, causing scrape and bruising.
Working on stone splitter, smashed thumb between two stones.
While chiseling stone, a piece of metal chipped off chisel and embedded a metal fragment in arm.
Employee was splitting rock on stone splitter. Had hand on top of rock, hit the table tooth reset lever to bounced the table up and pinched fingers in between the rock and splitter teeth. Caused lacerations and fingertip fracture to right middle and index finger.
While lifting and throwing rock into bins for trash, strained back.
Employee was feeding stone onto conveyer into saw. Smashed fingers between rock and saw door, causing laceration to right middle and ring fingers. Required stitches.
Employee was shaping boulders, and rock hit hard hat, knocking off to side, and rock lacerated scalp.
Rolling a stone onto another, foot slipped, stone rolled back and into right shin.
Employee was holding and pushing stone forward on splitter table, when the splitter was engaged, rock table came up and caught right hand index and middle fingers, crushing them between table and stone. Middle finger suffered partial fingertip and nail amputation and slight fracture to bone.
Exiting cab of excavator stepped on unstable rock causing sprain to right ankle and fracture to right foot.
Employee was turning a rock to put it into the stone splitter. The rock broke and the employee's arm fell into it. The piece that employee fell into had a jagged corner which caused a laceration on left forearm.