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1983–2026
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December 23, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS RE8TACKING BAGGED PRODUCT WHEN HE LIFTED A BAGS TO PUT ON TOP.EMPLOYEE FELT A PULL IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

November 1, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING WHEELBARROW FULL OF MATERIAL AND WHEN HE MADE A TURN THE WHEELBARROW TILTED AND EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS UPPER BACK WHILE TRYING TO KEEP IT UPRIGHT.

September 30, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

EMP WAS STARTIN1 A RECYCLE PUMP. AT #4 HOLDING TANK. A DISCHARGE LINE LAYING OVER A HAND RAIL ABOVE EMPLOYEE MOVED WHEN EMPLOYEE OPENED A VALVE CAUSING A CLOD OF MATERIAL TO DISLODGE CAUSING I T TO FALL STRIK3NG HIM ON LEFT FOREARM. BRUISING SAME

September 24, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Industrial Minerals Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WORKING TOO 0AST & NOT IN A SAFE MANNER.

September 15, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE SHOVEL3NG SAND AND TWISTING HIS LOWER TORSO WHILE DOING SAME.

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