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September 11, 1995 FL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE OPERATING THE CRUSHER, DIGGING ROCKS OUT O THE CRUSHER, THE LEFT ARM STARTED SWELLING FROM THE LOWER PART INTO THE HAND CAUSING PAIN.

September 29, 1994 FL · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE GETTING ON TOP OF THE SWING GUARD TO CHECK THE HOIST BRAKE. THE GUARD, APPROX. 40 INCH HIGH. HE WAS STANDING ON THE STEP GOING TO THE OPERATORS CAB. FROM THIS POINT HE PULLED HIMSELF ONT O IT. SOMETHING TORE IN HIS KNEE.

May 12, 1994 FL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CAUGHT FINGER LEFT HAND, BETWEEN THE TAILGATE AND BUMPER ON SUPERINTENDENTS PICK UP TRUCK.

March 20, 1991 FL · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE DRAG CHAIN SLIPPED AND MOVED SUDDENLY WHILE I WAS REPAIRING THE DUMP SOCKET ON THE DRAGLINE.

August 23, 1989 FL · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE LIFTING AN OIL CONTAINER, HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK.

April 2, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

THE OPERATOR SHUT THE DRAGLINE DOWN AND CLIMBED OFF. THE OILER WENT TO THE ROOF AND REMOVED THE RADIATOR CAP. THE PRESSURE THEN SPRAYED HOT WATER AND BURNT HIM FROM THE WAIST UP, ON THE LEFT S IDE OF HIS BODY.

January 3, 1987 FL · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS PULLING HOI8T CABLE THROUGH BOOM POINT SHEAVE WHEN OTHER HELPERS LET CABLE GO CAUSING CABLE END TO FLIP OVER HITTING I NAME ON TOP OF HIS HEAD JUST AS HE BENT DOWN TO PICK UP HIS HARD HAT WHICH HAD FALLE3 OFF

August 27, 1984 FL · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE REMOVING A 1 1/2" WIRE ROPE FROM REAR OF D9 TRACTOR THE ROPE TWISTING UNDER TENSION SQUEEZING RIGHT THUMB ON DRAWBAR DISLODGING NAL FROM FINGER.

May 7, 1984 FL · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miami Crushed Rock Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A WATER PUMP THEN LATER COMPLAINED OF A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

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