I am just getting a bystronic bystar 4020 up and running and I'm running through a 4x8 sheet of 11ga stainless, my problem lies with the parts being small and falling through the slats on the table. When they end up underneath they get showered by the molten steel coming off of the following cuts. What kind of work-arounds can I do to prevent them from becoming covered in slag.

1. put a piece of expanded metal underneath the sheet with smaller gaps than the parts so the parts dont fall through. - - they will still fall 1/4" or so and get sprayed, unless I space the parts out drastically - - wasting material
2. tab the parts so they stay in the sheet. - - i will have to manually debur the pieces after I manage to break them out of the sheet

pieces are roughly 2.5"x1"