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July 21, 1999 OH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

CARRYING SCREEN CLOTH TO THE TOP OF THE WET PLANT FOR REPLACEMENT IN THE VIBRATING SCREEN AND PULLED MUSCLE IN UPPER BACK.

September 17, 1998 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Struck against stationary object

TAKING LOWER NORTH WET SCREEN CLOTH OUT OF FRONTDISCHARGE BOX AND PULLED ON SCREEN CLOTH. HAND SLIPPED AND HIT TOP SCREEN LIP. IT WAS RAZOR SHARP FROM ROCK WEARING ON LIP. CUT RIGHT HAND LITTL E FINGER

September 9, 1998 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE A NEW SCALPING SCREEN PLATE FROM STOCK, EE SEVERED HIS TIP OF LEFT THUMB

August 5, 1998 OH · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THEY WERE STACKING RAILROAD TIES ON FORKS OF BOBCAT WHEN ONE SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND PINCHING THE FATTY TISSUE LOSE ON TIP OF LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. TOOK TO HOSPITAL AND DOCTOR CUT TORN TISSUE OF F AND CLEANED AND BANDAGED.

October 15, 1997 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LOADING 89 ISC ANVILS SHOES INTO PICK UP TRUCK WHEN LIFTING PULLED MUSCLES IN ABDOMEN.

June 25, 1997 OH · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Struck by falling object

WORKING ON HOE. TRYING TO PUT HOE ARM ON THAT CURLES HAMMER. ARM SLIPPED AND SMASHED FINGER.

September 7, 1995 OH · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

UNPLUGGING CRUSHER DISCHARGE CHUTE AT PRIMARY PLANT WAS WORKING ON MOVING LARGE STONE PLUGGING PRIMARY CRUSHER DISCHARGE CHUTE. PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

August 29, 1995 OH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WAS LIFTING 1 FOOT SQUARE CRUSHER LINER INTO PLACE AN DPULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.

April 24, 1995 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING CORNER OF PIPE FLOAT FRAME TO POSITION BAND AND PULLED BACK MUSCLE.

March 31, 1995 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

LIFTING STYROM FOAM PIPE FLOAT AND PULLED MUSCLEIN BACK.

September 23, 1994 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PICKING UP SECTION OF 6" PVC PLASTI CPIPE IWTH OTHE RCREW MEMBERS. WHILE LSIFTING PIPE INJURED STRAINED MUSCLES AND TENDONS IN HIS LOWER BACK. PIPELINE WAS BEING MOVED TO RELOCATE WATER PUMP .

August 12, 1994 OH · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

ADDED TRAINING AND GREATER AVAILABILITY OF EYE WASH.

April 16, 1993 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO LIFT TRASH CAN AND STRAIN MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.

November 11, 1992 OH · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING STAND SAMPLES. WEIGH PAW WAS ON FLOOR. BENT OVER TO PICK UP AND TWISTED HIS BACK PULLING A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

December 12, 1991 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CLOSING HOOD ON AIR COMPRESSOR,HANDS SLIPPED AND PENETRATED RIGHT INDEX FINGER IN BIFOLD FLANGE? ON HOOD.LACERATED FINGER JUST BELOW 1ST JOINT.

February 9, 1988 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Struck by falling object

EMP WAS LIFITNG A CHUNK OF FROZEN STONE OUT OF THE FEEDER FOR LIME PLANT WHEN HIS FEET SPLIT OUT FROM UNDER HIM HE FELL FORWARD AND THE CHUNK OF STONE LANDED ON H IS LEFT RING FINGR SMASHING

December 9, 1986 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melvin Stone Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

WATER PUMP HAD 5OST ITS PRIME AND WAS CAVATTATING WATER IN THE PUMP HAD HEATED DO TO FRICTION REPAIR MAN OPENED A VALVE TO PRIME THE PUMP AND WAS HIT BY STEAM THIS CAUSED MINOR BURNS TO MANS FACE 3

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