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1983–2026
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December 27, 1990 MD · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS CROUCHED AND ATTEMPTED TO LIFT A BULK NOT HEAVY ITEM,MUSCLE SPASM TO LOWER BACK.

February 13, 1990 MD · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS ASSITING ANOTHER EMPL ROLL DISCH BOOK OVER TO WELD ON IT. BOX ABOUT 3'X3'X1'-1 1/2 STEEL. OVERHEAD CRANE AVAIL & NOT USED. EMPL FELT CALF OF LEG POP & COULD BARELY WALK.

October 17, 1988 MD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 74TD EUCLID IN THE PIT. ANOTHER OPERATOR NOTICED OIL COMING OUT FROM UNDER THE EMPLOYEE'S ENGINE, AND MOTIONED TO HIM TO CHECK HIS TRUCK. EMPLOYEE STUCK HIS HEAD OUT O

November 17, 1987 MD · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Struck by falling object

SECONDARY WAS R6NNING WET MATERIAL WHICH WAS CHOKING UP CHUTES, AND BINS IN THE PRIMARY SCREEN TOWER. EMPLOYEE HAD TO GET UP IN THE BED OF THE TRUCK TO USE A SHOVEL TO UN CLOG THE BIN UNDER T HE PRIMARY SCRR9N. AFTER HE FINISHED UNCLOGGING THE BIN HE GOT DOWN OFF THE TRUCK, AS HE WAS STANDING NEAR THE TRUCK, CONVEYOR CHUTE ON TOP OF THE TOWER CHOCKED UP, AND STONE CAME OVER THE SI

September 29, 1987 MD · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING UNDER THE BELLY PAN OF NORTHWEST 80D SHOVEL AND GREASE DRIPPED OIN EYE.

May 12, 1987 MD · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Phoenix Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE MOUNTE8 TRUCK AND SAT DOWN IN PASSINGER SEAT. HE ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE THE DOOR WITH HIS RIGHT HAND BY GRABBING THE SIDE OF DOOR, WHEN DOOR DID SWING SHUT, IT PINNED HIS MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS BETWEE3 THE DOOR AND DOOR JAM.

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