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
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Showing all 5While 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.
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.
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 palletizing flat rock (landscape stone) injured person was swinging a maul & twisted his lower back causing a minor strain on lower back muscle.