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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.
Employee twisted with a piece of landscape stone / flatrock in hand hurting EE's lower back
Injured person was running a hydraulic stone splitter for the purpose of dimensionalizing landscape stone / flat rock. EE's hand was under a pinch point and when operator of splitter controls went to engage splitter jaws.....injured person pinched the 3 middle fingers on right hand severely bruising them and a minor cut on middle finger.
Employee had a piece of stone on the forks of a skid steer getting ready to load the stone splitter table when EE lost control of the machine and stone came off making skid steer rock back and forth severely and allowing employee to hit the lap bar / hold down bar with EE's chest fracturing a rib
While hand palletizing Flat rock / landscape stone EE felt like EE pulled a muscle in EE's left groin area. EE continued to work the rest of that day. That was on a Friday. Monday EE came back to work and worked a 1/2 day and alerted us to the accident EE had on Friday. I sent EE to the ER to get checked out for a possible hernia
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.
While running the Stone splitter to make Dimensional stone. Employee laid right hand on the power feed conveyor/roller table that you control with a handle. Employee then engaged control that makes conveyor/roller table move forward and table pulled EE's hand in between 2 rollers and wedged EE's hand in between the 2 rollers temporarily and bruised hand severely.
While feed table was being loaded with flat rock the skid steer operator pushed the table of stone / flat rock forward and a piece of stone fell off causing it to hit victim on the left foot / ankle. Employees are taught to stay away from table while being loaded.
Employee went to step / dismount from Ford Dump Truck from drivers side while raining and slipped on the side of the step and twisted right ankle causing a sprain in that ankle. It was raining hard that day causing step area to be slick due to it being metal and wet.
Employee / Crew member decided to load a piece of stone on a 3ft splitter table by hand instead of waiting on a machine (skid steer) to load table, resulting in a pulled muscle in his lower back.
Said employee was running our excavator / trac hoe pulling up flat rock slabs 9" in thickness and rock slipped out of the bucket allowing rock to break causing a small piece of stone (approximately 3/4" diameter) to fly up and hit employee on the right side of his head in between his eye and ear near his temple causing nausea and dizziness..
While pushing flat rock / landscape stone to the 3 ft splitter to dimensionalize stone, employee felt pain & discomfort in left shoulder. He worked till lunch at 11:00 am and then decided to go to Dr. due to discomfort / pain in that shoulder. Conditions in that area were dry, partly cloudy and 30 degrees.
While employee was running to the restroom, he tripped/slipped on a rock and twisted left ankle causing a sprain to left ankle.
While palletizing flat rock (landscape stone) injured person was swinging a maul & twisted his lower back causing a minor strain on lower back muscle.