Work in the quarry can be a dangerous affair as my poor meeple amputee can attest. I can say as a meeple physician that his physical therapy is going quite well (breaking up rocks does wonders) and he is getting used to his new brass prothesis.
Geez, I had two meeples in my copy of this game that came deformed too. One looked like he was burned and blistered on one side of his body and the other had a tumor...