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June 16, 2014 SC · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buckhorn Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Two employee's were was setting a liner on a cone head. A telehandler was resting the liner on the head. As it did, the liner slid off of the cone and rolled on the ground pinching an employees leg between it and concrete blocks that the crusher sits on resulting in a broken left leg.

October 9, 2012 SC · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buckhorn Materials LLC · Struck by falling object

Taking old toggle seat out of the jaw plant to change it and it was heavier than expected. The seat got stuck, another employee wiggled it to get it loose and when it broke free it fell and the employee that was hurt could not hold it and it came down on the employees leg making a small laceration on left leg.

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