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November 9, 1998 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Menefee Crushed Stone Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

DIGGING WITH SHOVEL UNDER BELT, SOME MATERIAL FELL OFF BELT, EE DOES NOT KNOW IF HIT OR NOT. NO MARKS, EE BACK IS SORE, DR SAID POSSIBLE STRAINED BACK.

April 25, 1987 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Menefee Crushed Stone Company Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

WHILE CHANGING 2AMMERS IN CRUSHER (APROX. 80 LBS.) I,NAME SET A HAMMER OUT OF THE CRUSHER MOUTH ONTO THE OPENED DOOR SURFACE. MAOVING TO GET A BTTER POSITION TO BE ABLE TO TOS THE HAMMER DOWN TO THE GROUND;3I,NAME PLACED HIS HAND NEXT TOT HE HAMMER WHICH THEN ROLLED OVER ONTO HIS FINGER-PINCHING IT REGURING STITCHES TO CLOSE THE WOUND RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE FINGER.

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