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October 13, 2020 IL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mid-America Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Strained back while lifting asphalt rubble and/or walking on uneven ground.

October 3, 2020 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mid-America Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was manually lifting asphalt rubble.

June 21, 2011 IL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mid-America Sand & Gravel · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Two workers were replacing the tail pulley on Extec Conveyor. They were pulling pulley over the rock deflector when injured employee's end dropped and pinched his finger between the pulley shaft and the frame.

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