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May 22, 1996 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REFUEL PROPANE POWERED FORKLIFT, EE LIFTED PROPANE TANK AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.

August 8, 1995 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TARP IN ORDER TO COVER THE PALLETS ON A FLAT BED TRUCK AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

May 16, 1995 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Struck by flying object

WHILE PERFORMING ROUTINE DUTIES IN GARAGE,EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED FOREIGN BODY IN HIS RIGHT EYE CAUSINF CORNEAL ABRASION.EMPLOYEE WAS NOT AWARE HE HAD SUSTAINED INJURY UNTIL HE WAS AWAKENED BY PAIN IN HIS EYE AFTER HE HAD RETIRED TO BED AT HOME.

January 19, 1995 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS RUNNING THE PRIMARY CRUSHER & WAS APPROACHED BY AN EMPLOYEE EEWHO HIT HIM ON THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD WITH AN IRON PIPE LATER IN THEDAY EE WAS CLOSED INTO A SHANTY (BY THE SAME EMPLOYEE NAM ED ABOVE) & THE AIR COMPRESSOR HOSE WAS SLIPPED UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR & TURNED ON CHURNING DUST & SMALL STONE PARTICLES INTO EE FACE & EYES AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT EE WAS TERMINAT

November 30, 1994 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED DUMPING A LOAD OF LIME AND WHEN HE COULD NOT CLOSE THE TAILGATE, HE PUT HIS HANDS UNDER THE TAILGATE AND SOME OF THE MATERIAL DISLODGED CAUSING THE TAILGATE TO CLOSE ON H IS FINGER.

July 26, 1994 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE RAIL BY THE STACKER BELT AND HIT HIS HEAD ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON. KNOCKING BACK HIS HARD HAT AND HITTING THE TOP OF HIS HEAD.

May 23, 1994 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BAG OFF THE LOADING BELT & STACKING SAME ON PALLET ON TRUCK WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN LEFT WRIST

May 10, 1994 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EMPLOYEE THROWING BUNDLER OF BAGS TO AN UPPER DECK SOME BAGS FELL BACK PULLING ON ARM LATER IN THE NIGHT THE EMPLOYEE FELT A PULL IN HIS SHOULDER WHEN STACKING BAGS ON THE TRUCK

April 20, 1994 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A TRUCK AND WHEN HE BENT OVER HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK.

November 18, 1993 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE TRYING TO MOVE A BARREL OF ANTI-FREEZE, EMPLOYEE GOT HIS INDEX FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE DRUM AND THE DRUM HANDLER.

October 8, 1993 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lime Crest Corp · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WHILE PULLING OUT BUCKETS & CHAIN FROM CASING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE STONE ELEVATOR, EMPLOYEE STRAINED BACK.

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