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June 14, 1990 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gifford-Hill & Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STOPPED EUCLID TO GET A PLATE OFF OF THE HAUL ROAD AND NEVER SET HIS PARKING BRAKES. EUCLID STARTED TO ROLL, EE RAN TO GET IN AND THE DOOR HIT HIS ARM. CAUSING BRUISE AND SWELLING.

February 19, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
Gifford-Hill & Company · Struck against a moving object

DRIVING WEST ON US 84, WHEN A PICK-UP STRUCK HIM IN THE REAR IOF VEHICLE CAUSING HIS HEAD TO GOTHRU THE REAR GLASS ON THE TRUCK. THE OTHER PICK-UP WAS DRIVING APPROX. 60 MPH, MAN WAS BELIVED TO BE DWI.

October 16, 1985 LA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Gifford-Hill & Company · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING A HAUL UNIT DOWN ROAD TO PIT & DID NOT SEE THE DITCH. WHEN HEE HIT THE DITCH IT THEN THREW THE HAUL UNIT & DRIVER INTO ANOTHER DITCH. BECAUSE HE WAS TOSSED AROUND INSIDE THE H AUL UNIT INJURY WAS CAUSED WHEN HE STRUCK THE INSIDE OF THE CAB. EE SUSTAINED LACERATIONS TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD & OVER LEFT EYE BROW.

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