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January 29, 1991 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
Quality Aggregate Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

EMPLOYEE COLLASPED OF AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK WHILE AT WORK. EMPLOYEE HAD HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS AND NO OUT OF THE ORIDNARY WORK WAS PERFORMED PRIOR TO THE COLLAPSE. EMPLOYEE DIED IN THE E MERGENCY ROOM AT DOCTORS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN POPLAR BLUFF.

August 10, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man OTHER
Quality Aggregate Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

LOADING HAY IN COMPANY VEHICLE TO BE USED FOR ERROSION PURPOSES ON SEDIMENT POND UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DISTURBED WRASP NEST IN A FELLOW EMPLOYEE BARN WHEN BECAME STING ON LEFT WRIST.

June 14, 1988 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Quality Aggregate Company · Struck by flying object

WHILE OPERATING A WALDON FRONT END LOADER,CLEANING UP DIRT IN SCREENING PLANT,THE WIND BLEW SOME DIRT OFF OF THE FRAME OF THE SCRENING MACHINE HE WAS GOING UNDER,DIRT WENT IN AROUND THE SAFETY GLASSES HE WAS WEARING AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE HE WASHED OUT HIS EYE RIGHT THEN,IT STARTED HURTING THE NEXT DAY AND HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTERNOON JUNE 15,1988.

April 9, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Quality Aggregate Company · Struck by flying object

THE EE WAS CLEA3ING UP AROUND THE CRUSHERS/SCREENS WITH A WALDON #5000 FRONT END LOADER 3/4 YARD BUCKET.THE WIND WAS BLOWING & HE GOT SOME AIR-BORNE DUST/SAND IN HIS LEFT EYE.

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