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July 27, 1998 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Schildberg Construction Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EE WAS CLEANING UP AROUND PLANT USING A CASE SKIDLOADER WITH A DRAG ATTACHMENT MOUNTED TO THE BUCKET. THE CONDITIONS THAT DAY WAS WARM.WIND WAS BROWING LOOSE MATERIAL ACROSS THE PLANT. AS EE W AS PULLING THE LOOSE MATERIAL WITH THE DRAG, DUST HAD GOTTEN BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND THE SWEAT FROM HIS FORHEAD CAUSED HIS EYE TO BECOME IRRITATED.

June 12, 1996 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Schildberg Construction Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

THEY WERE STRIPPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT NONE TO PERSONS.

June 12, 1996 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Schildberg Construction Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

THEY WERE STRIPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT TO PERSON NONE.

November 10, 1993 IA · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent POWERED HAULAGE
Consumer Limestone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE DRIVE LINE ON A TRUCK BROKE, SO THEY TOOK A PULL CABLE & ATTACHED TO THE DOZER, WHILE DOING THIS THE TRUCK ROLLED AHEAD & HIT EMPLOYEE.

January 31, 1992 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Consumer Limestone Products Company · Struck by falling object

CREW HAD EMPLOYED THE CAT 998 LOADER TO ELEVATE SCREENING PLANT IN ORDER TO MOVE THE DOLLIES UNDER THE PLANT APPARENTLY SOME MUD HAD STUCK TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE LOADER BUCKET T HE EMPLOYEE WALKED UNDER THE RAISED BUCKET TO TRIP THE FIFTHWHEEL LOCK A CHUNK OF MUD FELL OFF THE BUCKET STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HEAD CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS HIP & SHOULDER EM

August 27, 1991 IA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

HE WAS ASSISTING WITH REPLACEMENT OF HEAD PULLEY BEARING ON IMPACT BREAKER. CAT 980 ENDLOADER WAS BEING USED WITH CHAIN BEARING. AFTER REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED CHAIN WAS PLACED IN LOADER BUCKET. UNKOWN TO LOADER OPERATOR EMPL WAS ALSO IN LOADER BUCKET LOADER OPERATOR BACKED AWAY FROM WORK AREA & TILTED BUCKET DOWN CAUSING EMPL TO FALL ABOUT 6'. EMPL'S LEFT ELBOW WAS FRACTURED.

June 14, 1991 IA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Consumer Limestone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE WAS HAOLDING ONTO THE HAND RAIL ON TOP OF THE TRUCK CAB WITH HIS LEFT HAND WHEN HE HIT A BUMP.THE DUMP BOX BOUNCED,PINCHING THE INDEX FINGER AND MIDDLE FINGERS OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE HAND RAIL AND THE DUMP BOX.

June 22, 1987 IA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Consumer Limestone Products Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS IN3A TRUCK,A WASP FLEW IN,HE SWUNG AT IT AND JAMMED HIS LEFT THUMB ON THE OVERHEAD "HEADACHE" BOARD.

August 18, 1986 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Consumer Limestone Products Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

2 MEN WERE WORK3NG ON THE V-BELT DRIVE OF THE CONVEYOR ONE MAN THOUGHT THE 2ND MAN WAS CLEAR OF THE CONVEYOR AND TURNED ON THE ELECTRIC POWER THE SECOND MANS RT HAND WAS DRAWN INOT THE PULLEY HIS HAND AND 0INGERS WERE BRUISED FROM THE PRESSURE OF THE PINCHPOINT NO SUTURES REQUIRED NO BROKEN BONES

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