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Miner was using a grinding tool, and a piece of metal hit miner's R-eye. Miner claims miner was wearing miner's prescription glasses and a face shield.
Miner was assisting with a maintenance project; welding was being performed and they sustained an eye irritation from residual arc flashing.
Miner was breaking oversized rock with a sure-strike attachment. Though the excavator was boomed out fully, fly rock hit & broke both the windshield & plexiglass protective shield causing miner to get glass in eye.
Miner claims to have been struck by a rock that jumped from a guarded shaker deck causing a laceration to left index finger and sprained wrist.
WHILE EE WAS JACKHAMMERING A ROCK WHICH WAS CAUGHT IN THE JAW, THE JACKHAMMER SLIPPED OFF THE ROCK AND HIT HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING HIM TO LAND AGAINST THE JAW HITTING HIS HAND.