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October 2, 2002 DE · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
American Minerals Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE TURNING ON A FORKLIFT WITH PALLET,THE PALLET STRUCK EE WHO WAS WALKING PAST. EE WAS NOT IN HIS ASSIGNED WORK AREA.

January 25, 2001 DE · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
American Minerals Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE TRAVELED THE WRONG WAY WITH A FORKLIFT AN CONTACTED A SHEET OF ICE. AS A RESULT THE FORKLIFT LOST CONTROLL AND HIT A PLANT TRAILER. DURING THIS COLLISION EE INJURED HIS RIGHT HAND.

January 25, 2000 DE · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
American Minerals Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE CLIMBED FROM ONE FORKLIFT TO ANOTHER, THE OTHER FORKLIFT WAS WET AND SNOWY. HE DID NOT SIT DOWN, PUT THE FORKLIFT IN REVERSE. WHILE MOVING, HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM THE FORKLIFT AND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO FORKLIFTS. HE PANICKED AND PULLED HIS LEG OUT FROM BETWEEN THE TWO.

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