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2000–2026
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August 30, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Decorative Rock Sales LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Using tool for clean up near tail pulley, tool was caught in conveyor assembly, jerking tool along with employee's hand and smashing the tool and hand against conveyor damaging three fingers of his right hand.

May 27, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Decorative Rock Sales LLC · Struck against a moving object

WATER TRUCK OPERATOR HAD STARTED TO ASCEND A HAUL ROAD GRADE & DID NOT SHIFT TO A LOWER GEAR UNTIL THE MOTOR STARTED TO STALL. WHEN HE DISENGAUGED THE CLUTCH, THE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARD. THE OPERATOR HIT THE BRAKES AND SLID IN WATERED AREA SIDEWAYS & THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER.

April 22, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Decorative Rock Sales LLC · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS REBUILDING HAUL ROAD BERM WITH LOADER WHEN THE LOADER TIPPED OVER DUE TO STEEP GRADE. (BRUISED SHOULDER/HEAD CONTUSION).

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