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July 29, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC ACCIDENT AND THE EMPLOYEE CAN'T RECALL ANY INSTANCE WHERE HE STRAINED HIS BACK. SEVERAL EMPLOYEE HAD WORKED ALL DAY SETTING UP A PORTABLE CRUSHER. IT WAS VERY HOT AND HUM ID THAT AFTER NOON. EMPLOYEE REPORTED THE FOLLOWING DAY THAT HE COULDN'T HARDLY GET OUT OF BED.

July 24, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Texas Lime Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON WRENCHES AND EXPERIENCED STOMACH CRAMPS, THOUGHT IT WAS A STOMACH VIRUS, ON HIS WAY HOME HE FELT A HARD SPOT. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA.

July 14, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Lime Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A DRUM OF HYDRAULIC FLUID USING A FORKLIFT INSTEAD OF ADJUSTING THE FORKS SO THE DRUM WOULD ROLL OFF FREELY HE PULLED THE BARREL OVER THE WOOD CHOCK INJURING H IS BACK

July 13, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL CARRYING PIECE OF STEEL UP INCLINED WALKWAY TO PRIMARY SCREEN AT CRUSHING PLANT AT QUARRY.EMPL IN HURRY TO GET UP THERE BEFORE BREAK TIME.WHILE WALKING,SOMETHING ON HIS BELT OR PANTS HUNG ON HANDRAIL CAUSING UPPER BODY TO TWIST.RESULTING STRAIN PROBABLY DIAG AS HERNIA.

June 15, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Arkansas Lime Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS ROTATING AIR ACTIVATED HOIST INTO POSITION TO DUMP A KILN CAR WHEN THE HOIST BECAME STUCK ON ITS BASE PLATE DUE TO LACK OF PROPER LUBRICATION AS EE PUSHED HARDER TO FREE THE HOIST IT SU DDENLY MOVED AND EMPLOYEE S HAND SLAMED AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE KILN CAR CUTTING HIS INDEX FINGER ON THE LEFT HAND FORTUNATLY THE EE WAS WEARING GLOVES OR THE INJURY COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.

June 10, 1989 VA · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Lime Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

HE WAS DOING A PRE-OPERATIONAL CHECK OF HIS HAUL TRUCK. WHILE CHECKING FLUID LEVELS HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL OVER AND WHILE STOPPING HIS FALL WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE BROKE HIS RIGHT THUMB. HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND.

May 30, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAD PREVIOUSL STRAINED HIS GROIN 032089 SEE ACCIDENT REPORT DATED 033089 EMPLOYEE REINJURED GROIN AREA 053089K WHILE TOSSING CORE ROCK INTO A CHUTE DURING THE LIME GRADING PROCESS COM PANY DOC DIAGNOSED CURRENT PROBLEM AS A GROIN STRAIN OR TARE & WILL NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN FOR TWO WEEKS EMPLOYEE IS OFF WORK FOR AT LEAST 2 WKS

May 13, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Texas Lime Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF THE LADDER ON HIS LOADER AND STEPPED DOWN ON EITHER A ROCK OR UNEVEN GROUND TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

May 11, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal coal strip operator POWERED HAULAGE
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HOPPER FOR KILN CAR WAS STRUCK..EMPLOYEE ENGAGED HOIST TO MOVE CARS(TRAIN)..STUCK HOPPER WAS FREED AND ALLOWED TO FREE FALL (ROTATE) INTO UPRIGHT POSITION..EMPLOYEE HAD HAND NEAR ONE OF THE LA TCHES AND WAS STRUCK BY IT CAUSING A MASHING TYPE WOUND TO HIS LEFT THUMB.

May 4, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Dravo Lime Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING TWO PIECES OF PIPE TO BUILD A HEADACHE RACK ON EUCILD. IPIE SCISSORED AND MACHED MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

April 26, 1989 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Lime Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

HE WAS ASSISTING OTHER MEN IN SHOOTING RING BUILD UP IN OUR #2 KILN. HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP BOX FROM FLOR WHEN LIME FELL OFF OF OVERHANGING PIPE & LANDED ON BACK OF HEAD & FALLING TO HIS FACE . BY HITTING HIM WHILE BENT OVER IT HIT SAFETY GLASSES FROM BEHIND LETTING LIME INTO EYES.

April 17, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lebanon Rock Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PIECE OF WIRE FROM WIRE BRUSH. WORKING ON PUMP.

April 14, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL LOADING TRUCK WHEN MATERIAL FLOW SLOWED.STRIKING SIDE OF TANK WITH STEEL ROD WHEN ROD CAME IN CONTACT WITH SUPPORT CABLE CAUSING ROD TO DEFLECT OFF CABLE AND STRIKE EMPL IN SIDE OF HEAD.R OD WAS BENT AND BENT PORTION IS WHAT STRUCK CABLE ALSO EMPL IS UNUSUALLY STRONG AND CAN PRODUCE CONSIDERABLE THRUST WITH ROD.

April 5, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Dravo Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS LYING ON STOMACH HOOKING UP HYDRAULIC LINES EXERTED PRESSURE ON BREAST BONE WHILE LYING ACROSS REAR WHEEL HAS SMALL KNOT & HAS PAIN IN THIS AREA SINCE THEN

March 20, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS CLIMBING LADDER TO GAIN ACCESS TO TRUCK LOAD OUT SHUTE IN PREPARATION TO LOADING TRUCK.IT WAS RAINING AT TIME. EMPL SLIPPED ON WET LADDER RUNG. AT THIS SAME MOMENT THERE WAS POWER FAI LURE AT PLANT & THIS STARTLED EMPL. COMBIN ATIONOF SLIPPING & BEING STARTLED AT SAME MOMENT CAUSED EMPL TO OVER REACT.

March 7, 1989 VA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON ONE OF THE TRACKS OF CRANE WHEN HIS FOOTING SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE HAD MUD ON HIS SHOES.

March 3, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

FRIDAY 030389 EMPLOYEE STOPPED FORK TRUCK & ATTEMPTED TO STEP DOWN & TURNED WRONG & TWISTED HIS BACK HE DID NOT FALL THURSDAY 030989 EMPLOYEE PICKED UP AN 9 POUND PUMP TO SET IT IN A PICKUP TR UCK & HE WENT HOME AFRTER THIS REPORTING THE PAIN WAS GETTING WORSE

February 6, 1989 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arkansas Lime Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THE BATESVILLE AREA HAD JUST ECPERIENCED A HARD ICE STORM AND THE GROUND CONDITIONS WERE EXTREMELY SLICK. THE EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED LOADING A CUSTOMERS TRUCK AND WAS RETURNING TO THE FORE MANS OFFICE AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE ICE. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO THE CO CHRIOPRACTOR IMMEDIATELY X RAYS REVEALED NO FRACTURES. THE IMPACT OF LANDING ON BUTTOCKS CAUSED MODERATE PAIN TO TH

January 20, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Texas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF LAST STEP TO TH GROUND. HAD JUST STEPPED OFF STEPS AND WAS WALKING AWAY WHEN HE EXPERINCED PAIN BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES.

December 13, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Dravo Lime Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS DISLODGING ROCKS FROM THE APRON FEEDER OF THE STONE CRUSHER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS LEFT ARM HE FELL ON THE APRON FEEDER

November 25, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arkansas Lime Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING NARROW GUAGE RAIL FLATCAR OFF OF KILN BRIDGE WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER AN IMPROPERLY PLACED MANHOLE COVER CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND.THE EMPL OYEE RECEIVED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO THE LEFT LEG.EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO APRIVATE PHYSICAIN FOR TREATMENT THAT INCLUDED 3 STITCHES.EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO HIS REGULAR DUTIES THE SAME AFTERNOON.

November 23, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lebanon Rock Inc · Fall from machine

I.NAME WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PERFORMING MORNING MAINTENANCE DUTIES ON OUR PORTABLE CRUSHER I.NAME SLIPPED & FELL HE FX.HIS ANKLE (LEFT FOOT) NOTE PORTABLE CRUSHER WAS NOT RUNNING AT THE TIME O F THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED

November 5, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Corson Lime Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING STARTER BOX TO FLOOR, WALKED BETWEEN STARTER BOX AND VIBRATOR SCREEN, STEPPED ON SMALL STONE AND TWISTED ANKLE.

November 2, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTING TRUCKS CROSSING AND WHILE THROWING TRASH IN CONTAINER TURNED QUICK AND DROPPED LID ON RIGHT HAND CAUSING CONTUSION TO LITTLE FINGER.

October 25, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Corson Lime Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE REMOVING STRUT ARM BUSHINGS ON PICK UP TRUCK WITH WRENCH PULLING ON WRENCH TO REMOVE STRUT ARM BUSING PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

October 24, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE A REPAIRMAN/4 WAS ASSISTING IN CONSTRUCTION OF FRAMEWORK OF NEW CRUSHING STRUCTURE A THE QUARRY,COME-A-LONG WAS BEING USED TO SECURE A 40" H BEAM TO OTHER STRUCTURAL STEEL AND THE HO OK ON THE COME-A-LONG SLIPPED OF AND THE METAL BEAM BUMPED THE EMPLOYEE'S SHOULDER.EMPLOYEE REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 11-14-88.EMPLOYEE HAS CONTINUED TO WORK.

October 20, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INVESTIGATION OF THE WORK AREA ONLY REVEALED THAT THE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN CLOSE SPACE AND IF HE HAD SIPPED HE OULD HAVE FALLEN. THE OTHER DETERMATION WAS THAT EVIDENTLY THE EMPLOYEE WAS I N A SQUATTING POSTION AND SIMPLY LEANED BACK ON HIS BUTTOCKS. THE EMPLOYEE CONTIUED TO WORK THE REST OF THE DAY WITH NI COMPLAINT OF INJURY.

October 12, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by powered moving object

HELPING REPLACE RAIL T IES IN PLANT YARD TEAM WAS U SING FORK LIFT TO PLACE TIES UNDER RAIL ATTEMPTED TO RAISE RAIL WITH FORKLIFT FORK SLIPPED & STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON FOREHEAD

October 5, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Dravo Lime Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE AREA, HE STEPPED ON THE OXYGEN/ACETYLENE HOSE IT ROLLED AND HE FELL.

September 30, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS DOING JOB AS USUAL & POKER BECAME LODGED IN DISCHARGE SHUTE. EMPL ATTEMPTED TO FREE POKER & WHEN HE PULLED ON IT HE WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD & POKER STRUCK EMPLS RIGHT SHOULDER.

September 29, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Dravo Lime Company · Struck by falling object

THE EMPLOYEE DROPPED A STEEL LID ON HIS LEFT LEG. IT WAS RAINING THAT DAY AND THE LID WAS SLICK.

September 25, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Virginia Lime Company · Struck by falling object

INJURED WAS LOADING BLASTING MATERIAL IN HOLES WHEN A ROCK, APPROX. SIZE 12" X 8" X 1", FELL STRIKING THE TOWER BASKET AND THE LOWER RIGHT LEG OF THE EMPLOYEE.

September 11, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Lime Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED STEPPED OFF OF SCALING TOWER TO THE GROUND AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE MATERIAL WAS 1/4 INCH OR LESS ROCK WENT TO DR 9-12-88 AFTER WORK LAID HIM OFF 3 DAYS.

September 9, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Texas Lime Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPL WAS WASHING DOWN THE #5 SCRUBBER PAD THE HOSE HUNG ON THEEDGE OF THE DRAINAGE DITCH AND HE REACHED DOWN TO PULL IT FREE WHEN HE FELT THE MUCSLE PULL IN HIS BACK

August 16, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON VIBRATOR IN 1 WASHER AND RECEIVED MUSCLE STRAIN OF ABDOMINAL MUSCLES.

August 15, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE CLEANING UNDERNEATH A TAIL PULLEY HE HIT HIS RIGHT HAND ON A BAR THAT HOLDS TAIL PULLEY GUARD

August 4, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN MIRACLE DEPT HAND LOADING 50 BAGS MIRACLE LIME ON PALLETS 50 PER PALLET 10 BAGS HIGH. COMPLAINED OF LEG AN ARM PAIN BEFORE GOING HOME, NUMBEROUS REPORTS OF SAME CONDITI ON BEFORE.

August 1, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Dravo Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS INSERTING GLASS TUBE INTO RUBBER STOPPER WHEN GLASS TUBE BROKE AND CAUSED LACERATION ON FOURTH FINGER ON L HAND RETRAINING THE THE PROPER MANNER OF INSERTING TUBING

July 24, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Arkansas Lime Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

NEW EMPLOYEE WITH 5 WEEKS WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOAD TRUCK FROM STORAGE BIN. MATERIAL HAD BRIDGED IN TANK AND WOULD NOT FEED OUT, THUS THE EMPLOYEE OPENED AN INSPECTION DOOR AND POKED THE MATERIA L WIHT A POKER, IN DOING THIS THE MATERIAL FELL AND DUST PARTICLES BLEW OUT OF THE APPROX. INCH DOOR AND BLEW INTO THE EMPLOYEES FACE.

July 21, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Corson Lime Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH SHOVEL IN CRUSHER AND FELL IN HOLE INJURED RIGHT UPPER LEG HIP AREA.

July 7, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEANING JAMMED CHUTE EMPLOYEE REACHED OVER MOVING CONVEYOR BELT TO DISLODGE JAMMED LINER SLIPPED AND CUT RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.

July 7, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Texas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO BEAT ON THE SCREW CONVEYOR. WHEN HE DREW BACK TO SWING THE HAMMER HE HIT IS KNEE.

June 30, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck against a moving object

EMP. DROVE TO AREA WHERE FORMAN WAS TO ASK IF HE NEEDED TO REMAIN ON THE JAB OVERTIME. PREPARING TO LEAVE HE BACKED HIS TRUCK INTO THE REAR OF A PARKED VEHICLE,, BUMPER TO BUMPER, NO DAMGE T O VEHICLES. EMP. DID NT LOOK BEHING BEORE BACKING UP.

June 23, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Texas Lime Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN DOAGNOSED AS HAVING BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL.DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF PARTSD CHASING ANDPAPERWORK AS THE MOBILR MAINT LEADMAN AND HAS NOT BEE N A HANDS ON MECHANIC ON A REGULAR BASIS.EMPLOYEE ALSO HAS A PART-TIME JOB WHICH INVOLVES REBUILDING ENGINES.

June 22, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by falling object

EMPL WAS CLEANING CLOSE TO PORTABLE CRUSHER 8" ROCK HAD LODGED IN BELT SYSTEM & WAS JARRED LOOSE BY A NOTHER YARDMAN. ROCK FELL SOME 10 TO 12' & HIT EMPL IN LOWER MIDBACK. X-RAYS FAILED T O REVEAL MORE THAN A BRUISE TO LOWR BACK. DR ADVISES EMPL WILL BE OFF APPROX 2 WEEKS.

June 21, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS STRAIGHTENING BAGGED LIME ON PALLET FROM ONE PALLET TO ANOTHER BAG OF LIME TWISTED AND BENT FINGER BACK, BRUISED LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

June 21, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Texas Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR THE DRAIN CHUTE UNDER #4 SCRUBBER THE DOOR HINGE WAS BROKEN AND WIRED SHUT WHEN EMPLOYEE HIT CHUTE UNDER #4 WITH HAMMER TO JAR MUD LOOSE HE JARRED THE DOOR L OOSE CAUSING HOT STEAM AND WATER TO COVER MOST OF HIS BACK HE ALSO SCRAPED HIS BACK WHEN HE JUMPED

June 19, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Arkansas Lime Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF ELBOW PAIN. ASSIGNMENT CONSISTED OF SHOVELING MUCK FROM AROUND BELTS AND OTHER AREA. EMPLOYEE DECLINED TO SAY STRAIN FROM WORK CAUSED INJURY. INVESTIGATION BY SAFET Y DEPARTMENT CONCLUDED THE INJURY WAS PROBABLY DUE TO STENOUS WORK OR AT LEAST COULD HAVE AGGRABVATED INJURY. EMPLOYEE WAS OFF TWO DAYS PRIOR TO COMPLAINT.

June 13, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING BACK ONTO TRUCK AFTER BREAK, CABLE LADDER ON TRUCK SWUNG TOWARDS TRUCK BUMPER WHEN GETTING ONTO TRUCK. BANGED RIGHT LEG ON FRAME OF TRUCK. CONTUSION AND SPRAIN TO RIGHT F OOT AND KNEE TO DATE DISABILITY IS BACK WORK S COMP. CARRIER IS FIGHTING THIS ONE SINCE DISABILITY IS NOT RELATED TO ORIGINAL CLAIM.

June 11, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corson Lime Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ACTING AS AN ASSISTANT FOREMAN AND WENT TO CHECK ON A PAYLOADER WITH A FLAT TIRE, EMPLOYEE BECAME INVOLVED IN AN AGRUMENT WITH THE OPERATOR OF THE PAYLOADER. THIS DEVELOPED INTO A FIGHT WHICH RESULT IN INJURIES.

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