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February 22, 2012 KY · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand OTHER
Yager Materials LLC · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was kneeling/squatting a lot and noticed soreness in the ball of left foot. Condition worsened with slight swelling on 2/24/2012.

June 9, 2011 KY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Yager Materials LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was found unresponsive in loader. Employee had no pulse & was not breathing. Gave him CPR until medical personnel arrived. Employee was air lifted to hospital where he was pronounced died.

November 12, 2008 KY · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man OTHER
Yager Materials LLC · Unclassified, insufficient data

EE was in control shack, he radioed co-worker to come back to shack when he could. Co-worker went back to see what was going on & EE was in shack. He had knot on his head and scratch on right hand. He did not know what happened. He possibly blacked out. No evidence to show what happened.

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