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1983–2026
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September 12, 1986 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS STANDING IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION HOLDING RUBBER STRIP IN HIS LEFT HAND HE WAS TRIMMING RUBBER STRIP WHEN RAZER KNIFE SLIPPED OUT OF RUBBER STRIP & MADE CONTACT WITH HIS LEFT HAND L5CERATING PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND

July 13, 1986 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS STANDING ABOVE DIVERTER VALVE TO REMOVE PLATE & GASKET FROM BETWEEN DIVERTER VALVE & CONVEY LINE FLANGES PLATE & GASKET BOTH HAVE TABS ON EACH SIDE EXTENDING OUT PA ST DIAMETER OF 0LANGE FOR INSTALLATION OR REMOVAL AFTER REMOVING PLATE THE ONE TAB ON THE GASKET WAS PULLED IN BETWEEN FLANGES BY DUST COLLECTORFAN CONVEY LINE I PRIED THE FLANGES APART WITH

March 3, 1986 MD · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES THAT HE WAS KNEELING ON A WALKWAY WITH A BUCKET IN FRONT OF HIS KNEES USING A POCKET KNIFE TO CUT SLITS IN SIDES OF PLASTIC LID ON GREASE BUCKET. WHILE POKING THE KNIFE BLA DE IN SMALL OPE3INGS IN LID PUSHING DOWNWARD WITH FORCE, THE KNFIE CUT THROUGH PLASTIC WEB DOWN INTO THE EMPLOYEE S RIGHT LEG ABOVE HIS KNEE.

September 25, 1985 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS KNEELING NEXT TO THE TRACK OF THE SHOVEL HOLDING A STEEL BAR WHICH WAS BEING USED TO DRIVE THE PIN WHICH HOLDS CHAIN TOGETHER THE OPERATOR OF THE SHOVEL WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO STR IKE THE BAR AND THUS DRIVE THE PIN THROUGH THE CHAIN LINK WHILE STRIKING THE STEEL BAR THE SLEDGE HAMMER GLANCED OFF THE HEAD OF THE BAR AND STRUCK I NAME IN THE LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF HIS SAFET

August 6, 1985 MD · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL GETTING READY TO WASH OUT SHORT BELT UNDER PRIMARY CRUSHER NOTICED SHAKER MOTOR BELT HANDING DECIDED TO CUT IT OFF.WITH GLOVES ON HE STARTED TO CUT BELT.WHEN KNIFE CUT THRU BELT IT ALSO C UT THRU GLOVE AND RIGHT THUMB.

April 19, 1985 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS DRIVING EARS ON CYLINDER W/A STEEL ROD USING A SHORT HANDLE MAUL WHEN MAUL HIT A BEAM ABOVE HIM ON THE DOWN STROKE CAUSING MISDIRECTION OF MAUL WHICH MISSED THE OBJECT IN MIND AND INSTEAD HIS HAND HIT THE PIECE OF STEEL THIS CAUSED A LACERATION OF THE R T INDEX FINGER

March 14, 1985 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE WAS REMOVING FENDER FROM A EUCLID & WAS STANDING BESIDE FRONT WHEEL TRYING TO PRY FENDER LOOSE WITH ONE HAND AND A BAR WHILE HE HAD OTHER HAND UNDER FENDER HOLDING IT UP, WHEN FENDER CAME LOOSE AND DROPPED, AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN FENDER AND TIRE.

June 19, 1984 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

UNDER DUMP I NAME WAS INSTALLING TRANSMISSION AND AIR TANK. WHILE TIGHTNING AIR TANK FITTING WRENCH SLIPPED OFF FITTING CAUSING WRENCH TO STRIKE GLASSES LENS OF GLASSES INDUCED CUT ON RIGHT EY EYEBROW

May 22, 1984 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LIFTING 25HP MOTOR WITH 10" BAR TO LINE UP COUPLING WHEN BAR SLIPPED CAUSING FINGER TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN MOTOR AND BLOWER FRAME

April 17, 1984 MD · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by flying object

HE WAS HOOKING UP A TITLE CYL. TO A BELL CRANK ON A LOADER. IN TRYING TO LINE THE HOLES UP ON THE CYL AND BELL CRANK HE HAD A 6 SQ. BLOCK OF WOOD UNDER THE CYL WITH HIS LT. LAND ON THE BOOM FR

February 16, 1984 MD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LEANING OVER PITMAN HOLDING STRICKER WRENCH WHEN A FELLOW EMPLOYEE WHO WAS HITTING THE WRENCH WITH A HAMMER SLIPPED AND THE HAMMER HIT EMPLOYEE HOLDING STRIKER WRENCH A CROSS RT. HAND BETWEEN THE FINGERS & THE WRIST.

August 12, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MENDING SCREEN CLOTH WITH PLIERS.PLIERS SLIPPED STRIKING FRONT TOOTH.

August 10, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STRIKING A DRIFT TO RELEASE THE PIN FROM A CRANE BUCKET WHEN HAMMER HEAD BROKE AND PIECE OF METAL ENT ERED HIS JAW

July 14, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STAES HE WAS HOLDING SCRAPPER FOR FELLOW EMPLOYEE AND WHEN OTHER EMPLOYEE WENT TO STRIKE SCRAPER WITH HAMMER HE MISSED AND HIT MR MILLERS HAND

June 20, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS EXERTING UPWARD PRESSURE ON ALUMINU SCALING BAR IN ORDER TO PRY DOWN POSSIBLE LOOSE MATERIL ON ROOF OF HEADING WHEN THE SCALING BAR FAILED (IT BROKE ABOUT 1FT FROM STEEL POINTER) CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HAND AGAINST CANOPY OF SCALING BASKET & LACERATING LEFT INDEX FINGER

May 20, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS CUTTING SOME BUSHES WITH AN AXE INJURED CLAIMS HIS FEET WERE PLANTED ON GRASS THAT WAS WET AND IN THE MIDDLE OF A SWING WITH THE AXE HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING THE AXE TO MISS THE BUSH AND HIT THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT BEHIND THE STEEL TOE

April 19, 1983 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING REAR WHEELS ON 50T REAR DUMP OUTSIDE TIRE WAS REMOVED AND ROCK KICKER WAS LIFTED UP AND PUSHED TO INSIDE OF MACHINE-RESINT ON INSIDE TIRE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING WHEEL SPAC ER IN DOING SO HE HAD TO STRIKE SPACER WITH HAMMER VIBRATIONS CAUSED KICKER TO SLIDE OFF TIRE AND SWING DOWN ONTO HIS HAND

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