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December 22, 2008 PA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kuperavage Enterprises Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE and another EE were moving 50lb bags of magnatite. He said he felt a twist, thought he must have pulled his back. Worked a full day and did not report until following day.

January 15, 2003 PA · Coal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kuperavage Enterprises Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS SORTING ROCK FROM COAL WHEN RIGHT HAND BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO ROCKS, INJURING THUMB & RIGHT HAND.

January 12, 2000 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kuperavage Enterprises Inc. · Fall from machine

EE WAS LOOSENING BOLT ON ENGINE REMOVAL ON D9 DOZER.. TOOL SLIPPED OFF NUT, EE LOST HIS BALANCE, FALLING TO GROUND. PAIN ON RIGHT SIDE--RIB AND SHOULDER BRUISED.

January 6, 2000 PA · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator MACHINERY
Kuperavage Enterprises Inc. · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS LODDING MUD FROM MUD DAM USING A GRADE ALL. WHIEL DUMPIN BUCKET OF MUD, IT SPLASHED BACK INTO WIDNOW SPLASHING HIM IN THE EYES WITH MUD. ADMINISTERED FIRST AID ON JOB SITE. WEN T TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT GOOD SAMARITON HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER CLEANING. WAS SENT TO DR. FOR FURTHER EXAMINATION.

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