Injured and other ee's were setting a truck bed for a retaining wall. Loader operator thought that chain was unhooked and also thought that ee had motioned for him to go back. The chain was still hooked taking bed backwards causing crane boom to swing around. Crane blocked came unhooked and swang around knocking ee over the wall.
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Showing all 2EMPLOYEE RECALLS HE WAS BURSTING ON ROCK AND REMEMBERS PULLING HAMMER BACK; HAMMER HIT THE ROCK AND SOMETHING HIT HIM IN THE HEAD (INSIDE CAB OF ROCK BREAKER). THE NEXT THING HE REMEMBERED HE WAS AT DOCTOR'S OFFICE. (OTHER EMPLOYEES SAID THEY DIDN'T SEE ACCIDENT.) HE WALKED TO SHOP SEEMING TO BE IN INCOHERENT STATE OF MIND. MGR CHECKED EQUIPMENT, FOUND 3" ROCK 1" THICK IN CAB.