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November 27, 2002 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
A & M Products Manufacturing Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AFTER BALING CARDBOARD, TEMP EE ATTEMPTED TO RELEASE BALE FROM BALER. UNABLE TO RELEASE THE HEAVY LOAD, SHE GOT HELP FROM A FORKLIFT OPERATOR. THE FORKLIFT OPERATOR HAD THE BALE HALF UP AND OU T OF THE BALER, WHEN THE TEMP EE MOVED FROM HER SPOT OF SAFETY, ATTEMPTED TO ASSIST THE FORKLIFT OPERATOR BY PULLING DOWN THE BALER RELEASE HANDLE, AND THE HANDLE HIT THE SIDE OF HER HEAD AS

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