EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN ROPE & IRON STRUCTURE ROPE WAS BEING PULLED USING FRONTEND LOADER ROPE CAME LOOSE & BACKLASHED STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEG & BROKE LEFT LEG BELOW KNEE
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July 30, 1991
MS · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS UNTYING A ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE BARGE WHEN ROPE SLIPPED AND SNATCHED ARM INTO THE TIMBERHEAD OF THE BARGE. FRACTURED LEFT WRIST.
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE BLUEGILL BOAT FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER WHEN BACKWASH FROM THE TOWBOAT CAUSED SMALL BOAT AND DREDGE TO BE THROWN INTO ONE ANOTHER WITH EMPLOYEE CAUGHT INBETWEEN.
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