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2000–2026
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February 15, 2024 WA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Peninsula Topsoil · Fall to the walkway or working surface

While exiting the power shack, I tripped and landed wrong on my left leg, and felt a pop just to the inside and above my knee. Xrays shows a fractured Femur.

January 14, 2013 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Peninsula Topsoil · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Started up my loader and was walking back to the job shack and slipped on a patch of ice and hurt my ankle.

April 27, 2012 WA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Peninsula Topsoil · Fall onto or against objects

Was working on hopper doing the skirtboard rubber adjustment when he slipped and landed on a edge of guard and tore open his armpit area went to hospital and received stitches and was sent home was told he could RTW on Monday.

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