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2000–2026
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July 29, 2024 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
MC Materials, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

No gloves and lack of communication while changing screens and clamp bar caught EE's finger and took a gash out of EE's left ring finger.

July 30, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDLING OF MATERIALS
BMC Sand, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE claims to have injured lower back while lifting screens on the plant.

January 4, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
BMC Stone, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was helping string a conveyor belt. When pulling slack out of the roll with a rope, the knot secruring it came loose, causing them to fall onto a steel beam. Employee has a small fracture to the ninth rib.

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