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June 24, 2014 GA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Stephens Industries, LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was completing his normal daily task of cleaning around conveyor 19 when he heard a noise coming from a return roller. Employee reached up to a return roller to remove a rock. The return roller caught his sleeve and pulled his arm into the roller causing the belt to burn his right arm.

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