Mine waste crusher plants are mushrooming intensively due to demand of construction materials in developing countries. Most studies in the past ten years have focused mostly on coal and gold mining and little attention is given to Pt mining. However the focal limitation, is on Pt mine waste rock crusher plants in SA. A recent study indicated that most Pt miners have. This does not leave the fact that platinum dust exposure is one of the contributing causes of numerous respiratory infections. Hence the significance of conducting a human health assessment with a full dust particle characterization.