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February 28, 1995 MD · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against a moving object

EE STATES DROVE OVER A LARGE ROCK WITH HAUL TRUCK AND JARRED HIS NECK. THIS JUST BECAME A MEDICAL ACCIDENT.

November 23, 1992 MD · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS CLEANING UP AROUND THE TAILPULLEY WHEN A ROCK COME OFF THE BELT AND STRUCK HER IN THE BACK.

September 9, 1992 MD · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT WHEN GOING ON THE DOCK PLATE WHICH HAD COME UP, HE WENT DOWN SUDDENLY, CAUSING HIM TO INJURE HIS BACK.

October 21, 1991 MD · Metal/Non-Metal coal strip operator POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS SITTING IN HER DUMP TRUCK WAITING TO BE LOADED WHEN THE CRANE STARTED TO DUMP HIS LOAD INTO THE DUMP TRUDK THE MATERIAL CAME OUT AT ONE TIME CAUSING THE TRUCK TO ROCK B ACK & FORTH & CAUSING HER TO HIT HER HEAD ON THEBACK OF THE GLASS

August 14, 1991 MD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNJAM BAG PLACER STEEL CONVEYOR WHEN SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED & HIS HAND WENT INTO THE CONVEYOR & CUT HIS FINGER

May 3, 1991 MD · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against stationary object

EE STATED HE WAS PUTTING FULL BAGS ON CONVEYOR BELT WHEN A BAG GOT BETWEEN THE BELT CONVEYOR AND THE METAL ROLLS. HE TRIED TO FREE THE BAG HE PULLED HIS HAND OUT OF THE RUBBER CONVEYOR AND HIT THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

August 8, 1990 MD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE BACKING UP A LOADER, HE SAW ANOTHER LOADER COMING UP BEHIND HIM. HE HIT HIS BRAKES, THINKING IT WAS CLOSER THAN IT REALLY WAS. THE SEAT ROCKED BACK, CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS NECK.

November 13, 1989 MD · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEES STATES HE WAS SITTING IN THE HAUL TRUCK WITH THE PARKING BRAKE SET AND THE TRUCK IN NEUTRAL. THE PARKING BRAKE FAILED AND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO GET THE TRUCK INTO GEAR, HE MANAGED TO S TEER THE TRUCK AROUND AN ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER BEFORE HITTING THE LEFT RIB OF THE WALL. UPON IMPACT, THE SIDE WINDOW IN THE CAB BROKE FREE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE CHEST.

July 11, 1989 MD · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS COMING OFF A TRUCK WITH A FORKLIFT WHEN THE OVERHEAD GUARD HIT THE TOP OF THE TRUCK DOOR FELXIBLE FRAME. HE CHECKED THE AMOUNT OF ROOM BETWEEN THE OVERHEAD GUARD AND THE TRUCK DOOR FRAME. THE FORKLIFT DRIFTED AND THUMB WAS CUAHGT BETWEEN THE FORKLIFT GUARD AND DOOR FRAME.

February 14, 1989 MD · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT DURING THE COURSE OF THE DAY, FOREIGN MATERIAL ENTERED AND SCRATCHED HER LEFT RIGHT EYE.

September 14, 1988 MD · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Struck against a moving object

HE WAS SITTING IN A CO PICK UP WHICH HAD STALLED IN THE HAUL ROAD WHEN ANOTHER CO VEHICLE STRUCK HIS PICK UP.

January 2, 1987 MD · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper POWERED HAULAGE
Genstar Stone Products Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES THAT HE WAS STANDING GETTING READY TO CHECK OIL IN BETWEEN THE DOZER AND THE GREASE TRUCK THE GREASE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARDS AND PINNED THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE TWO VECHICLE THE EMPLLYEE S5YS THAT THE TRUCK JUMPED INTO REVERSE AND STARTED BACKWARDS.

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