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September 13, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
37 Mining LLC · Fall from ladders

Employee was on a ladder washing out the dewatering screen. The pressure from the screen caused them to lose balance. EE jumped off of the ladder and landed wrong on right foot and fractured their tibia.

August 9, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
37 Trucking, LLC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The operator was closing the door on the loader and closed the door on right hand middle finger.

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