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November 7, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal trackman, track worker, track gang HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO POUT MOTOR BACK ON TRACK & TWISTED BACK

September 20, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MACHINE AND PULLED LOWER BACK.

June 22, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS STAGING UP-LAID 2"X12' OVER SPRIG-IT FLIPPED BACK-CAUGHT EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT ARM, BREAKING RIGHT WRIST.

June 20, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CARRYING TMBER - PULLED BACK MUSCLES. (LOST TIME ACCIDENT, NOT REPORTED.) (AUDITED BY NACHO BENITEZ).

April 4, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion in lifting objects

SCIATIC PAIN AND BRUISING OF LOWER BACK AND KEFT HIP MOVING TIMBER ACROSS STOPE PULLED MUSCLEDS.

August 11, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING 6'6" RAIL FROM THE STATION TO THE SKIP WHEN FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

June 17, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Struck by falling object

EE WAS MOVING 838 TIMBERS THAT WERE STACKED ON TOP OF ROCK BOLTS THAT HE NEEDED. 8X8 FELL OVER & H IT HIM IN THE FOOT. BRUISED RIGHT ANKLE & OUTSIDE OF INSTEP.

February 10, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

PULLING CABLE O6T OF SLUSHER WHEN FELT PAIN IN NECK

February 2, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING OLD 8X83APPROX. 5 FT TIMBER-FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. PROBABLY AGGRAVATED AN OLD INJURY THAT HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY MAJOR SURGERY.

November 26, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NING HOIST CABLES WHEN THE CABLES TWISTED AND HIS THUMB WAS CUAGHT AND BRUISED.

October 23, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE LIFTIN1 PIPE INTO HANGERS AND TYING OFF WITH CABLE FELT PAIN IN CHEST WHEN LIFTING PIPE

September 3, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Camp Bird Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLEANING A PLAC9 ON FOOTWALL FOR POST-KNEELED & NOTICED LEFT KNEE WOULD NOT BEND NORMALLY.

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