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EE PARKED HIS TRUCK UNDER OUT 5 BIN AND GOT OUT OF IT. WHEN HE WENT TO GET BACK INTO IT A ROCK FELL FROM PLANT SOMEWHERE STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS NECK. I COULDNT DETERMINE EXACTLY WHERE ROCK CAME FROM.
HE WAS WALKING ON PLATFORM ABOVE JAW CRUSHER TO GET TO PLANT OPERATOR'S BUILDING WHEN A ROCK APPROX. 6" X 12" JUMPED UP OUT OF THE CRUSHER AND CAME BETWEEN THE GUARD RAILS STRIKING HIM ON THE OUTSIDE OF HIS RIGHT KNEE. HE WENT AHEAD AND WORKED UNTIL 10:30 WHEN IT STIFFENED UP AND STARTED TO SWELL A LITTLE. THIS IS WHEN HE DECIDED TO GO AND HAVE IT CHECKED. THIS WAS JUST A FREAK ACC
EMPL WAS DRILLING LAST HOLE OF STONE SHOT WHICH WAS RIGHT AGAINST 60' HIGHWALL. INSTEAD OF GETTING BACK AWAY FROM WALL WHILE HOLE WAS BEING DRILLED HE DECIDED TO GREASE HIS DRILL. WHILE HE WAS GREASING ROCK ABOUT AS BIG AS MY FIST FELL OFF OF WALL STRIKING HIM IN HIS LOWER BACK. X-RAYS WERE TAKEN AT HOCKING VALLEY COMM HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TOLD THAT HE MAY HAVE CRACKED BONE