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October 2, 2014 IN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Purdy Materials Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee really has no Idea of when and where the accident happened, but first noticed when he bent over to remove a rock from the feed hopper.

April 9, 2010 IN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Purdy Materials Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances

he was lying on his side using a cutting torch and a hot piece of slag went in right ear Now July 15,2010 had surgery to repair a hole in eardrum will miss 7-10 days

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