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January 22, 1998 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Fall onto or against objects

THERE WAS A WOODEN FRAME BUILT OVER THE LADDER AT THE END OF THE PLATFORM SUCH THAT THE TOP HORIZONTAL MEMBER OF THE FRAME HAD TO BE PASSED UDNER TO GET ONTO THE LADDER. WHEN THE EE GRABBED TH E MEMBER TO SWING UNDERNEATH, IT BROKE LOOSE CAUSING THE FALL.

October 15, 1997 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS HANGING A SLUSHER BLOCK AND FELL THROUGH A HOLE CATCHING HIS ARM ON A SHARP PIECE OF CONCRETE ON THE WAY DOWN.

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