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3,112
Years on record
1983–2026
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October 13, 1986 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck by flying object

ROCK CHIP WAS T2ROWN FROM CRUSHER JAW AND HIT OPERATOR ON LIP CAUSING BRUISE.

June 26, 1985 HI · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE DRILLER WAS MOVING THE DRILL & COMPRESSOR ALONG A ROAD WAY . WHEN HE STARTED DOWN A SMALL TGRADE THE COMPRESSOR WAS PUSHING THE TRACK DRILL CAUSING THE STERRING TO REVERSE. THE DRILLER D DID NOT REALIZE THE STREERING HAD REVERSED AND WHEN HE TTRIED TO TURN THE DRRILL TURN THE OPPOSITE WAY HITTING HIM IN THE SHIN.

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