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August 12, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management MACHINERY
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OBSERVING JAW CRUSHER HANG-UP. SHOVEL TOOTH ON CABLE BEING USED TO FREE HANG-UP. SHOVEL TOOTH STRUCK FINGER.

July 22, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING 12X12 CRIBBING TIE.

July 18, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Struck against stationary object

CLIMBING DOWN FROM PORTABLE SCREEN DECK STEPPED ON ROCK AND TWISTED ANKLE

July 18, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Contact with heat

MANUAL REPAIR WORK ON CONVEYOR BELT BECAME DIZZY AND FAINT

July 6, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Fall from machine

EXITING SKID LOADER STEPPED OVER BUCKET SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING RT ARM

June 24, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER
Herbert R Imbt Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL BECAME ILL WHILE SHOWERING TO GO HOME AT END OF HIS SHIFT.

March 22, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMP. WAS UNLOADING SCRAP METAL, POSTS, ETC. FROM PICKUP TRUCK BY HAND. WHILE PULLING SCRAP METAL POST OFF THE TRUCK BED, HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

February 22, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Struck against a moving object

WHILE OPERA TING A D-6 CAT DOZER T HE EMPLOYEES BACK WAS JERKED IN THE SEAT WHEN THE MACHINE WENT INT O GEAR INSTEAD OF NEUTRAL

January 21, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler OTHER
Herbert R Imbt Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A NORTHWEST BACKHOE.A PIN BROKE IN THE BUCKET POSITIONER.HE HAD DISMOUNTED AND HAD WALKED TOWARDS THE BUCKET AND WAS WAITING FOR THE FOREMAN TO RETURN FROM THE SHOP WIT H THE PART WHEN3HE COLLAPSED FROM A HEART ATTACK.

January 5, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE, TWISTING HIS BACK, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO JUMP START A TRUCK.

November 25, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales POWERED HAULAGE
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE HAD RE4OVED A PARTIALLY FILLED DRUM OF EIA-TRAC-OIL FROM TAC-WAGON WITH MOBILE CRANE & SAFETY CHAIN WITH SAFETY HOOKS APPROX.100FT.FROM SHOP WHILE TGRAVELING T O SHOP TO PLACE DRUM I NSIDE HE RAN TH9U A SHALLOW RUT CAUSING ST EERING WHEEL TO RUN WILD CAUSING INJRY TO WEB OF LEFT HAND

August 10, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WALKING D2WN A CONVEYOR BELT OF A PORTABLE CRUSHER WITH A GREAS GUN AND GREASE CARTRIDGE, THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON BLET AND GRABBED BOTH SIDE RAILS TO BREAK FALL. EMPLOYEE DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK 5ND BACK OF UPPER THIGHS.

August 5, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

UNLOADING A HEA8 PULLEY FROM A PICKUP TRUCK WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHEN THE PULLEY CLEARED THE TAILGATE THE OTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED HIS END I.NAME HELD ON AND WAS PULLED FORWARD BY THE WEIGHT

May 1, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Herbert R Imbt Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS LO2KING FOR AN OIL LEAK ON A 50-TON DUMP TRUCK & SLIPPED & FELL INJURING HIS RIGHT ELBOW

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