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October 14, 1991 VA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE

ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT TO RELOCATE SOME EMPTY PALLETS.INJURED WAS OBSERVING FOR SEVERAL MINUTES FROM A SAFE DISTANCE.FOR REASONS UNKNOWN HE MOVED CLOSER,RIGHT INTO THE PATH OF THE FORKLIFT AS IT BACKED UP,ONTO HIS LEFT FOOT.

August 27, 1990 VA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
White Stone Company Of Southwest Virginia · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

FORKLIFT AND TRUCK DRIVER WERE MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION TOWARDS ENTRANCE RAMP TO PLANT. AS FORKLIFT STARTED UP RAMP, THE OPERATOR REMEMBERED A JOB HE NEEDED TO DO. HE PUT THE FORKLIFT IN R EVERSE AND WITHOUT SUFFICIENTLY LOOKING BACK, PROCEEDED BACK DWON THE RAMP. HE BACKED INTO THE TRUCK DRIVER AND, BEFORE HE COULD STOP, KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND RAN OVER HIS LEFT FOOT AND ANKLE WI

July 16, 1987 VA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
White Stone Company Of Southwest Virginia · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

BURNER UNIT PIC5ED UP BY CRANE AND HELD BY 2 NYLON STRAPS.UNIT GOT OVER-BALANCED STARTED TO FLIP TOWARD ME.HE TURNED & TRIED TO STOP IT HIS HAND WAS ON EDGE OF FRAME AND AS IT FLIPPED OVER THE STRAP MOVED AN8 CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN STRAP AND EDGE OF FRAME AND MASHED HIS FINGER.

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