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1983–2026
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March 20, 1990 WI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Bay City Silica Division/Treco Sales Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPL SAID HE PUT CAT 936 LOADER INTO NEUTRAL & APPLIED EMERGENCY BREAK. H WAS GOING TO GET OFF LOADER. LOADER SUDDENLY STARTED MOVING BACKWARDS GIVING HIM JOLT.

February 6, 1989 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Bay City Silica Division/Treco Sales Inc · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME DRIVING DUMP TRUCK.DUMP BOX ON TRUCK WENT UP AND HE DIDNT REALIZE IT.WHEN HE ENTERED MINE DUMP BOX HIT CEILING OF ENTRANCE.RECD JOLT WHICH CAUSED INJURIES. TED IN THE INJURIES.

October 27, 1988 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Bay City Silica Division/Treco Sales Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS PUTTING BELT DRESSING ON A PULLEY.THE CAN SLIPPED OUT OF HIS AHND AND WHEN HE WAS REACHING FOR THE CAN HIS AHND GOT CAUGHT BY THE BELT AND PULLEY TWISTING HIS HAND.

November 7, 1984 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Consolidated Zemi Corp · Struck by powered moving object

WE WERE HAULING OVERBURDEN WITH OUR SCRAPERS FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS TO THE EAST SIDE FOR CONSOLIDATED ZEMI CORPORATION. THE OPERATOR OF THIS SCRAPER SAID HE DID NOT SEE THE TRAIN AND IT STRUCK HIS MACHINE.

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