AN I-BEAM WAS BEING INSTALLED AS A FLOOR SUPPORT. A CHAIN WAS WRAPPED AROUND THE BEAM AND AROUND THE BUCKET OF A LOADER TO LIFT THE BEAM INTO PLACE MR AUSTIN WAS GUIDING ONE END INTO PLACE. TH CHAIN SLIPPED OFF THE LOADER ALLOWING THE I-BEAM TO FALL ABOUT 3\ THE END OF THE I-BEAM SWUNG AROUND STRIKING MR AUSTIN IN THE SHOULDER
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Industrial Garnet Extractives Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
October 14, 1983
ME · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Garnet Extractives Inc · Struck against a moving object
EMP WAS DRIVING A LOADER OUTSIDE THE REAR OF THE MILL AND HIT AN AREA WHERE RAIN HAD WASHED OUT THE SOIL THE LOADER CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP BOUNCING HIM IN THE SEAT HE RECEIVED A PULLED TENDON I N THE BACK OF HIS NECK
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