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2000–2026
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January 21, 2009 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hall-Irwin Corporation · Struck against a moving object

The employee says he had tingling going down his leg in the afternoon while he was operating a loader in the pit. Didn't report anything to his supervisor except on a voice mail late at night.

January 16, 2009 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hall-Irwin Corporation · Struck by flying object

The employee was greasing a conveyor grease line when a rock bounced off and struck the employee in the face knocking out a tooth and loosening two others.

December 27, 2005 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Hall-Irwin Construction Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The employee was helping to grease a haul truck. He was holding a brace pin up as the bed of the truck was coming down and smashed his hand between the two.

September 25, 2002 CO · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Hall-Irwin Construction Company · Struck against a moving object

THE DRIVER TRIED TO MAKE A TURN AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED TURNING, HIS HAUL TRUCK OVER. INITIALLY THE EE HAD A BRUISED HIP ON 10-3 HE SAW THE DR AND COMPLAIN ID OF BACK PAIN.

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