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May 1, 2021 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Yote Stone · Struck by falling object

EE was stacking a pallet of chop rock, EE bent over to pick a rock up off the ground. In doing so, EE knocked a rock from the top of the pallet causing it to land on EE's right middle finger, breaking it.

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