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739,488
Of which fatal
3,112
Years on record
1983–2026
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July 30, 1991 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN ROPE & IRON STRUCTURE ROPE WAS BEING PULLED USING FRONTEND LOADER ROPE CAME LOOSE & BACKLASHED STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEG & BROKE LEFT LEG BELOW KNEE

March 13, 1991 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS UNTYING A ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE BARGE WHEN ROPE SLIPPED AND SNATCHED ARM INTO THE TIMBERHEAD OF THE BARGE. FRACTURED LEFT WRIST.

December 26, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE BLUEGILL BOAT FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER WHEN BACKWASH FROM THE TOWBOAT CAUSED SMALL BOAT AND DREDGE TO BE THROWN INTO ONE ANOTHER WITH EMPLOYEE CAUGHT INBETWEEN.

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