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Employee was starting a morning fire to warm up and employee's pants caught on fire. It burned employee's leg. Employee went to the local hospital and then to the burn center in Augusta.
Employee was using a sledge hammer on a wedge. A portion of the hammer sheared and struck EE in the forehead causing a cut.
EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.
Employee was loading pieces of loose granite in bottom of quarry into pan. A piece of rock caught his finger between the rock and pan causing injury to the end of his finger.