STARTED DRILLING HOLE FOR ROCK BOLT. DRILL KNOCKED SMALL ROCK LOOSE IT FELL APPROX 8\ & HIT DRILLER ON LEFT FOOT.
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Showing all 3THEY WERE ERECTING A RETAINER WALL AT CONVEYOR ON THE CRUSHER. THE LOADER OFER BROUGHT AROUND A LOG TO PUT INTO A PLACE HE WAS TOLD IT WAS TOO SHORT. HE BACK AWAY WITH THE LOG AND IT STARTED B OUNCING IT THEN HIT ELDON ACROSS THE LEGS WHICH REBULTED IN A BROKEN ANKLE.
AN AIR DRIVEN CRAWLER TRACKED DRILL RIG WAS BEING MANUVERED FOR A NEWDRILLING POSITION THE OPERATOR WAS STANDING IN THE WRONG POSITION RELATIVE TO THE CONTROLS BECAUSE OF THIS AND HIS LACK OF ATTENTION HE BACKED THE TRACK OF THE DRILL OVER HIS FOOT THE TRACK EMBENDED ABOVE TRACK PART OF THE FOOT PROTECTED BY STEEL XXX INJURING HIS TOE AND ANKLE