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December 30, 1986 KS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harry Byers & Sons Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE REACHE8 INSIDE A LARGE SLIDING DOOR PULLED ON A CHAIN TO CLOSE IT HIS JACKET WAS SNAGGED BY A LOCK HASP WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO PULL HIS ARM OUT THE DOOR SLID SHUT MASHING HIS ARM AGAI ST THE STATIONA9Y DOOR ON THE OTHER SIDE RESULTING IN A FRACTURE OF HIS RT FOREARM

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