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October 11, 2023 KY · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
California Rock Crusher Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was manipulating rocks and smashed a finger between two rocks resulting in stitches.

May 19, 2017 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
California Rock Crusher Corp · Fall to the walkway or working surface

After completing pre-trip, miner was walking to a second truck and suffered a seizure and fell on ground knocking off hard hat. Employee convulsed and hit their head on gravel ground, receiving scrapes and cuts to head and shoulder.

February 16, 2007 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator ELECTRICAL
California Rock Crusher Corp · Contact with electrical current

A Granite construction employee was working on our job site. He was working with our employee investigating & fixing an electrical issue inside a portable electrical panel box. The Granite EE touched live wires to a metal surface (was not electrocuted) but obtained electrical burns to hands. Granite Const has more info on this injury.

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