Employee was walking around the standard cone to the first van when the doors on the VSI 2100 came open and started throwing rock out. A rock flew out towards the employee and hit him in the mouth.
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Showing all 3Cutting a piece of metal from the jaw crusher & it fell onto the chute & slid down the chute pinning the employee's rt. hand under the piece of hot metal. It burned the back of his rt. hand. EE could be away from work for 3 weeks.
A ROCK ROLLED ON TO THE PLATFORM AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK OF THE LEG. EE HAD OF THE PPA ON. SAFETY GLASSES, DUST MASK, GLOVES AND SAFETY HARNESS WERE IN USE.