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August 31, 2015 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Union Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was dismounting a front end loader. He missed the bottom step, and when he caught himself, he strained his right wrist.

May 26, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Union Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR DRIVING EUCLID HUL TRUCK, TRIED TO SHIFT GEARS WHILE CLIMBING RAMP. MISSED HIS GEAR AND PERMITTED TRUCK TO RUN BACK WARD INNTO BERM UPSETTING TRUCK. CAUSING BRUISE OF LEFT THIGH. NO TE:DRIVERS ARE ALL INSPECTED TO S TART UP RAMPS UP A RAMPS IN A GEAR THAT WILL BE ABLE TO GET TRUCK TO TOP.

August 31, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Union Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

DRIVING EUCLID 0ROM PIT TO CRUSHING PLANT WHILE MAKING 90 DEG TURN TO RIGHT AT TOP OF RAMP,IN ORDER TO BACK UP TO PRIMARY CRUSHER.FRONT WHEEL HIT ROUGH SPOT IN ROAD.DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF STEE RING WHEEL.REGA3NING WHEEL CONTROL DRIVER STRAINED HIS BACK.

December 3, 1984 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Union Quarries Inc · Struck by falling object

EUCLID HAUL TRUCK DRIVER HAD JUST BACKED UTRUCK AGAINST MUCK PILE TO BE LOADED WHEN STONE FELL OFF OF LOADER BUCKET INJURING FOOT OF TRUCK DRIVER WHILE HE WAS SITTING IN THE TRUCK WITH DOOR O OPEN

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