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Employee was hand sorting rock with another employee. Rock slipped and smashed his thumb.
Sorting rocks and while passing rock between two employees, rock slipped and smashed employees thumb between sorting table and rock. Thumb nail was crushed and thumb lacerated.
SORTING BOULDERS AND COUGHT LEFT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN TWO ROCKS.
EE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO INSPECT A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO THE GROUND. IN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK HIS FALL, BROKE HIS WRIST AND INCURRED AN INCISION.