Employee was moving rock forward on rollers and smashed a finger.
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Showing all 10Employee was turning a rock on the turn table when the rock rolled over smashing their fingers
Went to grab a piece of rock and another piece fell on EE's hand.
Splitting rock. Material broke and tried to catch falling rock. ended up pinching hand in between 2 rocks.
EE was moving a rock on the splitter when the material broke smashing EE's hand.
Working splitter and wind blew through overhead door blowing foreign object into associate's eye.
Was Racking a rock off incline of the thin veneer saw and rock rolled onto a finger.
Pulling on a rock to get it ready to split in the splitter. Employee said employee heard a tear in the shoulder area.
Clean out plate flipped up smashing finger between plate and chisel.
Employee was building pallets in back of fabrication shop. When nailing pieces of wood together with nail gun, nail did not go into wood like planned. Instead it bounced off wood and recoiled the nail where employee was holding the piece of wood, puncturing EE's finger.