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273,095
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Years on record
2000–2026
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August 3, 2022 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Thompson Contractors Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

As EE and other employees where lifting the plates off the back of the service truck using a jib crane EE got EE's right thumb between two plates and it was mashed.

August 20, 2009 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Thompson Contractors Inc · Struck by flying object

The employee was operating our hydraulic hammer in the pit at the Miller Creek Quarry. A piece of rock he was breaking entered the cab on the right side through the side glass. It hit him in the right eye.

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