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November 14, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHEN STEEL WOOL CATHODES ARE PREPARD FOR MELTING,CHEMICALS ARE ADDED TO FORM FLUX.EMPL HANDS HAD DRIED OUT FROM ROCK DUST IN SAMPLE PREPARATION.EITHER HAD REACTION TO CHEMS ON CONTACT WITH HAN DS OR HAD ALLERGIC REACTION TO CHEM DUST.

November 8, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE IS HAUL TRUCK DRIVER. HE SAYS HE STOPPED HIS TRUCK AND REMOVED BURNING SENSATION INHIS LWOER BACK. THREE DAYS LATER 11-11-90 WHILE VISITING HIS PARENTS HIS BACK WENT OUT AND HE HAD TO E TAK EN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.

October 18, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING UP STEEL WOOL CATHODES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC CELL. AFTER CUTTING A PIECE OF STEEL WOOL WAS WRAPPED AROUND HIS LITTLE FINGER AND AS HE PULLED HIS HAND AWAY THE STRAND CUT HIS FINGER ALL THE WAY AROUND.

October 8, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO REMOVE BOX OF COMPUTER PAPER FROM BACK OF HER CAR & FELT PULLING IN LOWER BACK SHE FELL IT WAS MINER & WOULD GO AWAY ON 01--04-91 SHE DECIDED TO GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR

October 3, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MOVING BAGS HURT BACK

May 11, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I WAS DOING NORMAL JOB IN SAMPLE PREP I WAS LIFTING FIVE GALLON BUCKETS FULL OF SAND IT WAS NOT HURTING AFTER THAT A FEW HOURS LATER I WAS WALKING AROUND GETTING MY SAMPLES AND MY BACK STARTED HURTING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.

June 15, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ABACK INJURY OCCURRING DURING PHYSICAL MATERIAL T RANSPORT

August 2, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LEFT PINKY FINGER CUT WHILE CHANGING BLADE ON RAZOR BLADE UTILITY KNIFE.

June 30, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gull Operations Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMP. BRUSHED SOLID PARTICLE OF CAUSTIC SODA INTO RIGHT EYE CAUSING BURNING IRRITATION.

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