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3,112
Years on record
1983–2026
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September 12, 1990 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING STEEL-I BEAM IN BUCKET OF LOADER WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON GROUND HOLDING I-BEAM.

August 28, 1990 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL MOVING LARGE ROCK FROM EDGE OF DUMP TRUCK WHEN ROCK HIT EMPL RIGHT HAND.

October 3, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

THE EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK TROUBLE. WHILE LIFTING A SCREEN MUSCLE SPASMS DEVELOPED IN HIS BACK.

May 1, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CARRYING DRILL STEELS UP OUT OF A HOLE TH EMPL DROPPED ONE THE STEEL BOUNCED OFF THE GROUND HITTING HIM IN THE LEG

August 16, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

FROM GETTING IN AND OUT OF LOADER HIS LEG MUSCLES BEGAN TO TIGHTEN AND HIS KNEE BEGAN TO SWELL.

April 11, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE PUTTING GASOLINE INTO THE PONY MOTOR OF A CRANE THE CAP CAME OFF SPILLING GASOLINE OVER THE EMPLOYEE AT ONE PM HE REPORTED THE ACCIDENT TO SUPERVIOSR WES DUNN AT THIS TIME THE SKIN AND B ECOME BURNED AND BLISTERED.

March 23, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE LIFTING METAL SCREENS ON TO PLANT FELT PLLING BURNING IN MID SECTION OF BODY

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