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1983–2026
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January 22, 1990 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Nanocor Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PULLING PLASTIC TIES FROM TOP OF BYPSUM CLOTHS. HE WAS REACHING OVER THE TOP OF PLATE WHILE PULLING ON TIES WITH PLIERS. WHEN THE TIE BROKE MOMENTUM OF PULLING, PLIERS S TURCK EE ON LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE.

July 31, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Nanocor Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN HOPPER CAR. HE ATTEMPTED TO USE A STEEL BAR TO BREAK LOOSE SOME MATERIAL. AS HE HIT THE HOPPER CAR WITH THE END OF THE BAR, THE BAR WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND SMASHED HIS LITTLE FINGER OF THE LEFT HAND AGAINST THE HOPPER CAR.

July 8, 1986 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Nanocor Inc · Struck against stationary object

THE OPENING AT 6OTTOM OF FEED HOOPPER WAS STOPPED UP WITH LARGE CLODS OF BENTONITE I NAME HAD PIPICK AND ATTEMPTED TO BUST THE CLODS LOOSE HE AMADE A MISS SWING WITH THE PICK AND THE BACK OF HIS HAND HIT TH9 SIDE OF THE FRAME OF THE FEED HOPPER

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