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November 12, 1996 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEANING OUT MATERIAL BINS, SOMETHING SNAPPED IN HIS ARM (WRIST).

April 28, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IN TAKING DOWN A CONVEYOR, CABLE BROKE AND THE HANDLE ON THE HITCH-HIKER HIT HIM IN THE FACE.

March 9, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EE WAS WORKING ON A CRUSHER USING A SLEDGE HAMMER HE PULLED A MUSCLE WHILE USING THE SLEDGE HAMMER.

January 22, 1991 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING DRUM ON RIGHT FRONT TIRE OF A PAYLOADER TRUCK PINCHED HIS FINGER IN JACK.EMPLOYEE PASSED OUT AND HIT HEAD ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR.

April 25, 1989 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Fall onto or against objects

EMPL WAS REMOVING DRAIN PLUG FROM HAULER TRANSMISSION WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED EMPL LOST BALANCE HITTING SHOULDER ON BOTTOM OF TRUCK

September 17, 1987 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genesee Le Roy Stone Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS TA5ING APART CRUSHER WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WITH A BAR AND SLEDGE HAMMER. WHILE HE WAS USING BAR TO MOVE DISASSEMBLY NUT, THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO LOOSEN BY HAMMERING. HAM4ER REBOUND OFF FROM NUT HIT HIM A BLOW ON BRIM OF HARD HAT CAUSING BRUISING.

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