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September 29, 2009 TX · Metal/Non-Metal safety director HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lone Star Aggregates Acquisitions, LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee was loading scrap steel into loader bucket when he threw a large piece into bucket causing it to bounce out and strike him on the left side of his head. His hearing aid broke inside his ear canal. Employee went to the ER to remove the foreign objects from his ear canal.

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