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June 27, 1995 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

HE WAS SHOVELING DIRT AT PLANT WHEN HE INJURED HIS TESTICLE.

August 15, 1994 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS SHOVELING HEAVY DIRT WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

June 27, 1994 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS WORKING AROUND THE PLANT WHEN HE GOT DIRT IN H IS LEFT EYE

June 22, 1994 PA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Struck by falling object

HE WAS CLOSING CRUSHER WHNE A ROCK FELL OFF SCREEN AND HIT LOWER PART OF RT LEG.

August 24, 1993 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

REMOVING HOSE ON LOADER WHEN HYDRAULIC OIL SPRAYED IN HIS LEFT EYE.

February 6, 1992 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Struck by falling object

PICKING UP A BEAM WITH OTHER EMPL WHEN AN END DROPPED AND HIT HIM IN LEFT LEG.

February 2, 1990 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TAKING OUT ENGING FROM A SHOVEL WHEN HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK

October 23, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

PULLING THE LEVER ON THE BINS TO FILL UP TRUCKS WHEN HE TWISTED THE WRONG WAY AND PULLED HIS BACK

September 1, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Struck by falling object

LOOSENING A ROCK LODGED IN PLANT, WHEN ROCKS CAME DOWN ON TOP OF RIGHT ARM AND BACK.

July 31, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Huss Contracting Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE SHOVELING3FELT SENSATION IN BACK

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