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October 15, 1999 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hanford Brick Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS LIFTING A BLADE TO PUT BACK ON DOZER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS STOMACH. HIS STOMACH STARTED HURTING WHENEVER HE TRIED TO LIFT OBJECTS AND A BULGE APPEARED, WHICH HE COULD FLATTEN WITH HIS HAND. PULLED STOMACH MUSCLES CAUSING HERNIA. HAD SURGERY ON 10/26/99.

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