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October 29, 1985 IN · Coal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc · Fall down stairs

WEATHER CONDTIONS WERE BAD RAIN, SHOES WERE SLIPPERY DUE TO WET CONDITIONS SLIPPED ON C ONCRETE STEPS. LEFT ARM STRUCK CORNER OF CONCRETE STEPSCAUSING STRAIN AND BRUISE TO MUSCLE IN LEFT FORE ARM

August 27, 1985 IN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

I NAME WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE WELDER WAITING FOR A PART ON HIS DOZER TO BE WELDED WHEN A SPARK LANDED ON HIS SHIRT I NAME TRIED TO BRUSH THE SPARKS FROM HIS SHIRT WITH HIS HAND THIS ACTIO CAUSED BURNS TO I NAMES FINGERS

July 3, 1985 IN · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Clarkson Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I.NAME WAS LIFTING PIECES OF EQUIPMENT ONTO A PICK-UP TRUCK WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

May 10, 1985 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WAS MOVING OIL DRUM ON 5-10-85 THE DRUM SLIPPED STRIKING THE LEFT KNEE IT WAS THOUGHT AT FIRST THAT THERE WERE NO INJURIES LATER HOWEVER THE KNEE BEGAN TO SWELL ON 5-15-85 I.NAME REPOR TED THAT THE KNEE WAS SWOLLEN AND VISITED A DR.

March 9, 1985 IN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WAS OPERATING DOZER-CLEARING CUT TREES & BRUSH PRIOR TO TOPSOIL REMOVAL-A LIMB FROM A CUT TREE STRUCK DOZER WINDSHIELD CAUSING SAFETY GLASS IN WINDSHIELD TO BREAK A SLIVER OF GLASS SCRA TCHED THE EYE

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