Robert J Hicken; Paul R Ballif safety activity

Amputated tip of middle finger, laceration of ring fingertip both on right hand. Miner was holding rock in place at guillotine. The stone splitting had already occured. Guillotine recieving table moved upward miner's hand was still on the stone causing fingers to be pinched between stone and ledge of guillotine head.

Employee was unloading a 3" stone cap from the guillotine. Employee was pulling the stone towards them when the stone came off the metal roller wheels, the stone fell and crushed a hand between stone and the metal table.

On 01/21/2026, EE went to warm up EE's machine. In the process of walking over to EE's machine to access the ladder to climb into the cab EE slipped on a patch of ice falling backwards. As it was dark when EE parked EE's piece of equipment EE had not seen the patch of ice. It was early enough in the morning EE could not see the patch of ice in the morning either.

Employee was splitting flagstone with a chisel and hammer the stone they were working on opened up. When employee took the chisel out of the opening of the split rock, the rock closed on their right index finger. A rupture wound from the pressure exerted on the finger and a small tip fracture was the result of the incident.

Miner was using a chair to reach an item on an upper shelf. The chair slipped out from under the miner causing EE to fall. The miner fell directly on EE's left wrist. Resulting in a fracture of EE's ulna and radius bones