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December 6, 2010 WI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Struck against a moving object

A combination tractor tailer (rock tub) tipped onto the drivers side after it was fully raised. Driver sustained a brused shoulder and small cut to upper lip. Expected cause is frozen material in the trailer. Injured is a driver for a customer, not an employee or contractor.

May 14, 1996 WI · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Fall from machine

EE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF OF THE LOADER HE WAS OPERATING HE BROKE HIS LEFT WRIST IN TWO PLACES.

April 23, 1996 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Struck by falling object

EE WAS IN AN AREA UP NEAR PLANT & A ROCK FELL ONHIS FOOT.

March 23, 1994 WI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CRANE OPERATOR WHO IS NOT AN EE OF OURS AS WE WERE HIRING HIS TEMP. SEVICES DIRECTED OUR EE WHO WAS INJURED TO STAND WHERE HE WAS WHEN HE INJURED. OUR EE FELL DOWN 3-5 FT ONTO A METAL GRATE. H E WAS BRUISED INTERNALLY POSSIABLY BREAKING AFEWRIBS. HE INJURED HIS CHEST AND HIP DURING THE FALL.

February 3, 1993 WI · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CARPAL TUNNEL, BOTH HANDS SEPARATELY.

December 6, 1988 WI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME TIPPED A 55 GAL BARREL OF OIL FOR THE LOADER TO PICK IT UP HIS BACK GOT PROGRESSIVELY WWORSE THROUGH THE WEEK HE HAS SEEN A DR.GETTING A SECOND OPINION

July 28, 1987 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Flash burns (welding)

I.NAME WAS BEND3NG STEEL WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER ABOUT 5FT IN BACK OF THE WELDER HE LOOKED AT THE WELDER WITHOUT GLASSES OR HELMET HE WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE WELDING

November 29, 1984 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Co · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WE ARE CLOSED FOR THE WINTER MAKING REPAIRS ON THE CRUSHING PLANT, I.NAME WAS PRYING UP SCREEN TRAYS WITH I.NAME WHEN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED AND THE SCREEN TRAY CRUSHED HIS THUMB

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