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February 4, 1991 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

WHILE MOUNTING A BELTS ON A COMPRESSER, VICTIM RECEIVED A CONTUSION ON THE FIRST JOINT OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER.

August 14, 1990 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHEN HE WAS REMOVING SOME PULLEYS, HE SLIPPED HIS RIGHT HAND GETTING IT STUCK IN ONE OF THE PULLEYS, CAUSING LACERATION ON HIS FINGERS.

June 28, 1990 PR · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE HE WAS REPAIRING AN EQUIPMEENT, HE ASKED ANOTHER EMPLOYEE FOR A PART AND WHEN HE WAS HANDLING OVER THE PART TO HIM THE PART FELL FROM HIS HAND FALLING ON HIS PINKY FINGER CAUSING HIM A CUT ON HIS FINGER.

March 17, 1990 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPL ON IRON GRATE AND HELPER STRUCK THE GRATE,LOOSENING PART OF IRON WHICH INCRUSTATED(EMBEDDED? IN CHEST.

March 15, 1990 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS REPAIRING A PART OF A HEAVY EUIPMENT MOTOR. THE PART SLID FROM THE WEDGE FALLING ON HIM, GETTING HIS RIGHT SIDE OF THE THORAX AND HIS LEFT THIGH BONE.

November 21, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A PASTE TANK. UPON REMOVING THE TANK COVER, THIS ONE FELL ON HIS RIGHT HAND INJUR8ING HIS FINGERS.

October 13, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SOME CEMENT BAGS HE STARTED TO FEEL SOME PAIN ON HIS WAIST.

March 27, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WORKER ALLEGES THAT WHILE PULLING A STEEL CHAIN IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN THE WAIST

February 6, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WORKING ON COMPRESSOR SOME GREASE GOT IN PANTS PUT LIQUID GREASE REMOVER TO CLEAN PANTS SKING OGT RED AND BY NECT DAY DEVEL. RASH.

February 6, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

OPER COMRPESSOR RAD CAP VAPOR STRTED ISSUING FORTH CUASED FIRST DEG BURNS TO FACE R. EAR AND R. ARM.

November 14, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

WORKER ALLEGES THAT HE WAS GOING UP A STAIRCASE WHILE HOLDING ON TO THE HANDRAIL HIS AHND SLIPPED AND HIS THUMB HIT THE VERTICAL RAIL SUPPORT PIPE.

October 5, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER ALLEGES THAT HE WAS PERFORMING HIS WORK IN THE REPAIR SHOP IN A KNEELING POSITION,AND THAT IN THE AFTERNOON HE DEVELOPED A PAIN IN THE CALF LEFT LEG.

August 29, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

KILN WAS BEING RELINED WITH BRICK. THE BREAK SYSTEM WAS NOT PROPERLY IN PLACE PERMITTING THE KILN TO ROTATE DUE TO THE WEIGHT IN BALANCE. FALLING BRICK HIT WORKERS LEG.

April 7, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS PULLING A METAL BAND USED FOR FASTENING A BOX OF KILN BRICKS THE BAND SNAPPED HIT HIS EYE

March 26, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CO-WORKER WAS OPERATING FINGER TO MOVE A KILN BRICK PALLET. IN SO DOING HE PUSHED THE ADJACENT PALLET. S THE LATTER PALLET MOVED IT PINCHED THE WORKERS LITTLE FINGER.

March 11, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER ALLEGES THAT WHILE ARRANGEING PARTS IN THE WAREHOUSE HE FELT PAIN AT WAIST LEVEL.

February 18, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

HE WAS ADJUSTING AN AXEL ON A HYDRAULIC PRESS SO AS TO REMOVE A BALL BEARING THE AXEL GOT STUCK AND AS HE TRIED TO LOOSEN IT, THE AXEL FELL AND PINCHED HIS INDEX FINGER.

February 8, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

HE WAS LIFTING SOME BOXES WHEN SOMEBODY CALLED OUT FOR ONE OF THE BOXES. SO HE THREW THE BOX SO THE OTHER PERSON WOULD CATCH IT. AS HE DID SO HE FELT A CRACK.

October 21, 1987 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WORKER WAS CLEA3ING ELEVATOR PIT PACKING HOUSE AS PART OF A BUCKET BRIGADE HE STUMBLED ON A BUCKET FILLED WITH CEMENT AND CEMENT DUST LODGED IN HIS EYES

October 18, 1987 PR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WORKER COMPLAIN9D OF GENERALIZED ITCHING

July 1, 1986 PR · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WORKER TRIED TO3REMOVE A WHEEL FROM A MOVING CONVEYOR WHERE BY HE HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WAS PINCHED.

February 5, 1986 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WORKER COMPLAIN9D OF DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING.

September 6, 1985 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS STOWING A CEMENT BAG ON A PALLET WHEN HE ALLEGED HE FELT A SHARP PAIN ON LEFT THIGH

January 4, 1985 PR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WORKER WAS STOWING CEMENT BAGS ON PALLET HE ALLEDGED THAT ON PICKING UP A BAG HE FELT A SHARP PAIN AROUND HIS WAIST LINE

October 10, 1984 PR · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

TECHNICIAN WAS INTRODUCING BRUSH INTO A FLASK FILLED WITH MELTED RESIN FLASK TIPPED OVER & MELTED RESIN SPILLED OVER HIS RT HAND (HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO USE A GLOVE SINCE IN 082084 HE HAD S UFFERED ANOTHER BURN WHILE PERFORMING THIS TASK)

August 15, 1984 PR · Metal/Non-Metal carpenter HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

HE WAS REMOVING A TAMPER FROM THE TOOL BOX OF A PORTABLE AIR COMPRESSOR. AS HE LIFTED THE TAMPER HIS LEFT SMALL FINGER HIT THE BORDER OF THE TOOL BOX.

February 7, 1984 PR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS STACKING CEMENT BAGS ON PALLET JOB REQUIRED SUBSTANTIAL EXERTION OF DORSAL REGION DUE TO TYPE OF MOVEMENT WHILE STACKING APPARENTLY HE AFFECTED AN EARLIER BACK CONDITION DATING BA CK TO 102380

September 8, 1983 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

TRYING TO LIFT GRATING IN SLURRY MILL #1 FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.DIAG AS HERNIA RIGHT SIDE GROIN AREA.

February 2, 1983 PR · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GETTING OFF HIS FORKLIFT TRUCK. HE EXTENDED HIS LEFT LEG TOO FAR & PUSH HIMSELF FORWARD. HIS BODY WEIGHT OVER THE WRONG POSITIONED LEG CONTRIBUTED TO INJURED HIS KNEE.

January 18, 1983 PR · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING HIS TOOL LOCKER A THREE FEET LONG CHAIN #120 FELL FROM TOP OF THE LOCKER AND HIT EMPLOYEE LEFT HAND FINGERS #3 AND #4 FINGER #3 WAS FRACTURED

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