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1983–2026
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February 8, 1993 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Bonsal American Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RE-SETTING ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT FOR CONVEYOR BELT AND BELT STARTED WHILE HIS LEFT KNEE WAS ON BELT CAUSING LEFT KNEE TO STRIKE POWER OX FOR BELT.

May 16, 1990 SC · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
W R Bonsal Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING BACKDUMP, DROVE B/DUMP INTO BUTT IN ROAD JARRING LOWER BACK, EMPLOYEE REPORTED TO WORK ON 5/17 COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN. EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO N. AUGUSTA MED AND WAS THEN SENT TO A CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC. EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN 2 TYPES OF MEDICATION.

April 6, 1987 NC · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Bonsal American Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MOVING DREDGE F9OM ONE POND TO ANOTHER LOCATION ON LOWBOY TRAILER WHEN DREDGE BRUSHED SOME TREE LIMGS, BREAKING THEM AND WIND BLEW DEBRIS INTO RIGHT EYE

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