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November 9, 1987 TN · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON HAMM9R MILL WITH SLEDGE HAMMER;RIGHT HAND SLIPPED WITH HAMMER BAR AND INDEX FINGER WAS STRUCK WITH SLEDGE HAMMER.

July 22, 1987 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PRYING OP9N A STUCK RAIL CAR DOOR THE PRY BAR SLIPPED AND STRUCK I.NAME ON THE JAW I.NAME CONTINUED WORKING AND WENT TO THE DENTIST THE NEXT DAY TWO TEETH WERE EXTRACTED BECAUSE OF THE BLOW 3

May 15, 1987 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PREPARING TO DI1 OUT MATERIAL FROM HAMMER MILL WHEN SOME STONE FELL. I.NAME RAN DOWN STEPS TO AVOID BEING STRUCK & PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

October 9, 1986 TN · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PRYING TR6CK AXLE WITH A PRY-BAR, THE BAR SLIPPED TOSSING EMPLOYEE BACKWARD.

August 18, 1986 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL MASHED THU4B WHILE HAMMERING PIN ON SCREEN HOUSING.

January 8, 1985 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

48 YR OLD ROCK CRUSHING MACHINE OPERATOR WITH RECURRENT HISTORY OF ACUTE MILD LUMBAR STRAINS IN PAST YESTERDAY AFTER PRYING HEAVY ROCKS AT CRUSHER AT WORK BEGAN HAVING LOW BACK PAIN WHICH HE T RIEDTO IGNORE BUT IS MUJCH MORE SEVERE TODAY MUCH SPASM & GUARDING & PAIN RADIAT ES TO THORACIC AREA & TO BOTH LEGS & AFFECTS THE LEGS AS FAR AS WEAKNESS OF THE THIGHS HAS NEVER HAD THIS SEVE

February 7, 1984 TN · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cowan Stone Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ASSISTING REPAIRMAN REMOVE A TILT CYLINDER PIN ON A 966 CAT RT LOADEER INJURED WAS HOLDING A BAR WHILE REPAIRMAN DROVE OUT PIN PIN CAME FREE SUDDENLY ALLOWING THE WEIGHT OF LOADER ARM TO FALL ON THE BAR INJURED WAS HOLDING PINNING HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE BAR AND LOADER TIRE SEE COPY OF DR REPORT

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