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July 9, 2013 IL · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
WFI · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee along with two other employees were sampling a slurry pond. When the equipment that they were using started to sink and got stuck in the muddy coal. They had to unload the trailer full of equipment and pack it across the muddy slurry pond. Then they had to dig out the trailer and push it off the pond. He pulled a muscle in is back.

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