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September 12, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

HE PICKED UP A 100 LB BAG OF SAND AND TURNED TO THROW IT ON A PALLET AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING

January 15, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ONE OF THE STEP5S FROM THE WET HOPPER CAME LOOSE

August 15, 1985 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS STACKING SANDBAGS, TAKING THEM FROM THE GAGGER AND PUTTING THEM ON PALLETS.

June 3, 1985 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CHANGING VIBRATOR SCREEN HEAD AND IT SLIPPED AND PINNED LEFT HAND BETWEEN THAT HEAD AND ANOTHER SCREEN HEAD.

September 27, 1984 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS MOVING PALLETS SO LOADER COULD MOVE THEM HE LIFTED SEVERAL THAT DAY AND MONDAY HE HAD A SWELLING IN GROIN AREA SHARP PAIN WAS EVIDENT THAT DYA

August 25, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS ARRANGING A CASTING TO BE SANDBLASTED HE TWISTED HIMSELF AND STRAIGHTENED UP AND HURT HIMSELF IN THE LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF GROIN.

May 6, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independent Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING LADDER ON A FLAT BED TRUCK AND MASHED HIS FIRST FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND

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