Employee was measuring the depths of the holes for blasting. The ground was wet & muddy, so when the loader backed up a stone flew out from under the tire and hit Employee in the left leg(shin). He fell to the ground scraping up his right leg & knee.
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Mayville Limestone Inc · Struck by flying object
December 18, 2013
WI · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
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Mayville Limestone Inc · Struck against a moving object
Employee was driving the loader when he drifted off the road when he was hanging up his microphone for the CB and when he drifted off the road he hit a rut in the road and hit his head on the rops cage in the loader.
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