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September 7, 2006 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Pinnacle Materials Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

He heat up a piece steel to bend. He repaired a flange on the chute for plant, was approx. 20' of the ground. 1 leg was on the chute, other leg on the main frame structure holding up the plnat. He use his r. hand for balance. holding the frame with his r hand to steady himself he hold torch in his L hand, accident pulled torch across his r. hand wrist.

February 23, 2006 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Pinnacle Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

All day employees were rebuilding crusher of B plant. Using crane to lower chute back in place between the bypass chute & chute, employee on the crusher itself by the bypass chute was guiding the chute piece into place when it became pinched between chutes. When he released the chute it swung down smashing his right hand between chute & bypass chute (x-ray; no fracture).

June 15, 2001 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Pinnacle Materials Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

CUTTING STEEL TANK, SLIPPED AND FELL. RECEIVED 3" ABRASION ON HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG. ACCIDENT WAS 6/15 BUT REPORTED ON 6/20. FIRST DAY OUT WAS 6/21.

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