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August 25, 1992 SC · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Fall from machine

EE WAS DRIVING UP HILL BACK TO PLANT WHEN THE FORKLIFT JUMPED OUT OF GEAR, CAUSING THE FORKLIFT TO ROLL BACKWARDS IT THEN ROLLED INTO DTICH CAUSING IT TO TURN OVER.

September 29, 1989 SC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Struck by flying object

CLEANING PULLEY OF STACKER ROCK FELL FROM SCREEN HIT IN BACK OF NECK CUT TO BACK OF NECK

January 27, 1989 SC · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INJURED WAS REPLACING RUBBER SKIRT ON THE STACKER HOPPER HE WAS IN THE HOPPER WHEN A FORKLIFT BUMPED THE CONVEYOR BEHIND THE STACKER AND KNOCKED THE CONVEYOR OFF BLOCKS IT WAS SITTING ON TH E EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE STACKER AND THE CONVEYOR BEHIND THE STACKER

October 21, 1988 SC · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS HOLDING A POCKET KNIFE WHILE DRIVING A HAULAGE TRUCK. HE CUT HIS RIGHT FOREARM WHILE TURNING A CORNER.

April 28, 1988 SC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INJURED & FELLOW EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING A CONVEUYOR INTO PLACE OVER TO THE STACKER OPERATOR WAS WATCHING BELT BEING LINED UP WHEN CONVEYOR SLIPPED OFF OF FORKLIFT & CONVEYOR SLID FORWARD & PIN NED HIS HAND IN BETWEEN STACKER & THE CONVEYOR

March 17, 1988 SC · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE OVERSIZED ROCK FROM CONVEYOR BELT WHEN CONVEYOR BELT CLIP SNAGGED HIS GLOVE & PULLED HIS LEFT HAND IN B ETWEEN THE SPIRAL ROLLER & SKIRT RUBBER MOUNT

September 28, 1987 SC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Brewer Gold Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS BA7KING UP WITH A R OLL OF PLASTIC ON FORKS FORKS WERE RAISED TOO HIGH FOR MOVING SAFELY ON UNEVEN GROUND CAUSING IT TO ROCK BACK & FORTH CAUSING FORKLIFT TO ROLL OVER ON ITS SID E THROWING EMPL2YEE OFF

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