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March 25, 1991 CT · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Balf Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE STATES,"I WAS HAULING TRASH TO DUMP ON GROUNDS IN LARGE TRUCK (EUCLID) WHEN RAISED BODY- TRASH STUCK TO BODY AND WHOLE FRONT OF TRUCK WENT INTO AIR. LOAD GOT LOOSE AND SHIFTED AND WHE N TRUCK CAME BACK TO GROUND MY LEFT KNEE HIT HANDLE OF DOOR, CAUSING PAIN AND SWELLING."

May 12, 1989 CT · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management POWERED HAULAGE
Balf Company · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

APPARENTLY I,NAME'S SHIRT GOT CAUGHT ELBOW ON CONVEYOR BELT & ROLLER HE WENT TO PULL AWAY, HAND GOT CAUGHT BY CONVEYOR. ONE RING FINGER WAS SEVERED 1ST JOINT, MID FINGER HAD DEEP LACERATION LE NGTH OF INSIDE OF FINGER THREE FINGER NAILS WERE RIPPED OFF.

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