EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE DRAG ROPES ON DRAG LINE EMPLOYEE TWISTED BACK AND RUPTURED A DISC IN HIS BACK. POSSIBLE OPERATION AT A LATER DATE.
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March 11, 1985
WY · Coal
crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Medicine Bow Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects
Medicine Bow Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE PICKED UP LARGE BRASS BEARING THE BEARING SLIPPED FROM HAND & HIT EMPLOYEE ON FINGER.
July 24, 1984
WY · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Medicine Bow Coal Company · Contact with hot objects or substances
EMP WAS TAKING RADIATOR CAP OFF SCRAPER WITH FOOT PASSED SAFETY STOP ON CAP TOOK FOOT OFF CAP AND HOT WATER FROM HEATED RADIATOR SPRAYED LEG
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