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August 22, 2011 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Co. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee states he was washing out the inside of the log washer. He slipped and fell onto the paddles which resulted in bruising his ribs.

March 16, 2007 MS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

Employee was getting off of a track hoe that he had loaded onto a low boy, when he slipped and fell from the tracks onto the low boy trailer.

May 15, 2006 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

Employee slipped getting down from a front end loader and his right foot got caught in a step causing him to fall backwards twisting his right leg, knee, and ankle.

May 3, 2006 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

ee alledgedly slipped & fell & struck a wing wall as he was climbing down from a conveyor after he removed material from the conveyor.

April 30, 2002 TN · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

DISMOUNTING BACKHOE AFTER RAIN, FOOT SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO TRACKS HITTING HIS HEAD AND LOWER BACK.

February 7, 2000 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF GUARD RAIL OUT OF A HOLE HE LOST HIS FOOTING, SLIPPED AND FELL.

January 20, 2000 MS · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EDDIE WAS GETTING OFF OF DRAGLINE AND AS HE STEPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

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