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April 27, 2011 OH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Co · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was getting off the fork truck in the garage and stepped down onto the concrete floor and tripped over a water pump and scraped left arm from five inches above elbow to three inches below elbow. Cracked bone around ankle area. Tripping over the pump or the concrete floor caused the injury.

June 14, 2004 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EE was stepping off a portable platform elevated 12" off the ground. He was wearing the extra baggy pants and as he stepped off his right pant leg caught on the platform support causing him to lose his balance fall. as his pant leg ripped up the side he bounced off the step with his right hip and then landed on the floor.

September 30, 2003 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS WALKING ON ABOUT 2" OF MUD ON A SANDSTONE BASE. HE WAS CARRYING A ROUND STEEL PIN 3" X 24" IN HIS LEFT HAND. HE STEPPED ON A FLAT PIECE OF SANDSTONE THAT HAD A LAYER OF WET CLAY ON IT. AS HE DID THIS HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

November 9, 2000 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Company · Fall from ladders

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A SIX FOOT LADDER. HE TURNED AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF THE LAST STEP. HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE LAST RUNG. THIS LEG WAS IN A TWISTED MOTION AS HIS FOOT HIT THE GROUND.

September 1, 2000 OH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THE MILL HAD JUST PUT TWO BLOCKS ONTO THE CART AND PUSHED IT INTO THE GANG TO BE SAWED INTO SLABS. EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING TO SEE IF THE SWING FRAME WOULD BE ABLE TO COME DOWN PAST THE BLOCKS W ITHOUT HITTING. HE DECIDED TO GO DOWN INTO THE PIT, AND AS HE DID SO, HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

June 14, 2000 OH · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Briar Hill Stone Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PIPE ATTACHED TO AN AIR HOSE TO BLOW LOOSE MATERIAL OFF AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN DRILLED, IT WAS ON A SLIGHT GRADE. AS HE TOOK A STEP FORWARD HIS FOOT CAME DOWN ON A PIECE OF STONE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FOOT, HIS FOOT TWISTED AS HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON IT, HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL NOON THENM WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE HAD SPRAINED AN ANKLE.

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