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Years on record
1983–2026
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September 28, 1998 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Southwestern Graphite Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HAD COMPLAINED OF INDIGESTION TO HIS WIFE BEFORE COMING IN TO WORK. FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER STARTING HIS SHIFT, HE COLLASPED TO THE FLOOR. CPR WAS ATTEMPTED AND AMBULANCE/EMT WERE SENT FOR. R ESUSITATION ATTEMPTS WERE ULTIMATELY UNSUCESSFULAND EE WAS PRONOUNCED DECEASED AT APPROX. 7:00 PM ON 9-28-98. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK.

August 4, 1994 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Southwestern Graphite Company · Struck by flying object

DUST FROM GRAPHITE BLEW INTO EYES WHILE BLENDINGAT NO 2 E MILL.

June 9, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Southwestern Graphite Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

FOREMAN DISCOVE9ED SNAKE HE TOLD I NAME TO GET A SHOVEL AND KILL IT. HE PULLED HIS CUTTER KNIFE OUT OF HIS POCKET AND STARTED TWOARDS THE SNAKE. FOREMAN TOLD HIM AGAIN TO GET SHOVEL AND KILL I T . HE GOT A SH2VEL AND PINNED SNAKE AND REACHED DOWN TO PICK IT UP SNAKE BIT HIM ON LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

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