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May 8, 2019 MN · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was walking while performing geologic mapping in a wooded area west of the Concentrator. While walking ee tripped over some brush and downed branches, fell onto a rock, striking left knee, which resulted in a laceration that required sutures.

July 10, 2009 MN · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was descending stairs from the second floor to the first floor, in the Administration Office Building, stumbled at the landing that was located halfway between the second and first floors. Employee sustained a metatarsal fracture of the fifth (small) toe on the right foot.

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