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January 15, 2015 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was working in the yard - he walked around a pallet of slate, slipped on snow covered ice fell.

September 23, 2002 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Sheldon Slate Products Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE EXCAVATOR, WHEN HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND, HIS LT. FOOT TWISTED OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM, CAUSING A FOOT FRACTURE.

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