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October 16, 1990 WY · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) OTHER
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS FIXING SHOP DOOR. BLOWING WIND CAUSED THE OTHER HALF OF THE DOOR TO SLAM ON HIS HAND.

August 13, 1990 MN · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A DRILL. IT WAS ON A HILL AND HE STEPPED AND TURNED AT THE SAME TIME, TEARING LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT KNEE. IT POPPED AND WAS SORE BUT DID NOT GO IN FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 8-14-90.

August 1, 1990 MN · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CHECKING THE AIR VOLUME ON A SQUIRREL CAGE FAN IN PREPARATION TO INSTALL IT ONE THE GRIT PLANT BAGGING SYSTEM. UPON STICKING HIS RIGHT HAND IN EXHAUST OF SQUIRREL CAGE FAN THE FAN CAUGH T HIS 1,2,3 FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND CUTTING THEUNDER SIDE OF EACH.

July 21, 1990 MN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE DIFFERENTIAL OF OUR 988 LOADER. HE KNELT DOWN TO GET UNDER THE LOADER AND TURNED AT THE SAME TIME. HE IMMEDIATELY HAD SHARP PAINS IN HIS KNEE AS IT POPPED OUT. THE PAINS PERSISTED BUT HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY. HE LIMPED AND FAVORED IT THINKING IT WOULD GET BETTER. HE ENDED UP AT THE DOCTOR WHEN IT POPPED OUT AGAIN AND IS PRESENTLY IN

April 25, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REMOVING THE SAFETY CABLE FROM A TRUCK BED LOCKING MECHANISM. IT DISLODGED FROM ITS CLAMP AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES THUMB RESULTING IN A FRACTURE.

March 14, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAD BENT OVER WHILE HOLDING ONTO THE SIDE OF HIS TRUCK TO MAKE AN INSPECTION OF THE BRAKE POT LOCATED UNDER THE TRUCK, WHEN HIS HOLD HAD APPARENTLY KNOCKED LOOSE A SMALL CHUNK OF DIRT WHICH ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE FROM BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES CAUSING IRRITATION.

February 28, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Struck by falling object

WHILE REMOVING OLD WEAR FROM MILL , LINER FELL APPROX ONE FT HITTING THE EMP L INDEX FINGER RESULTING IN LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES TO CLOSE

February 9, 1990 WA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TAKING BED OFF 769A CAT TRUCK CRANE OPERATOR SWUNG BED & I NAME (OUR MECH) WAS STEADING IT TO KEEP IT FROM HITTING THE CRANE WHEN THE CRANE OPERATOR MADE A MOVE THAT CAUSED THE BED TO SWING AG AINST I NAME HOLD & FORCED WEIGHT TO SHIFT I NAME POSITION & MAKE HIS BACK HURT

February 7, 1990 OK · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

CHECKING SCREEN CLOTH FOR SCREEN CHANGE. SCREEN PANEL FELL HITTING LEFT LEG CAUSING LACERATION.

January 31, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DURING MAINTENANCE REPAIRS OF A SCREEN DECK EMPLOYEE SAFETY ROPE HUNG UP AND WHILE FREEING IT UP HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

January 25, 1990 OK · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

MOVING QUARRY PUMP. LOST FOOTING FELL ON RIGHT LEG.

January 15, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall from machine

DISMOUNTING SHOVEL EXCAVATOR EMPL FELL 3' TO GROUND BELOW ,LADDERA WAS BEING REPAIRED AND EMPL WASNT AWARE OF THIS.EMPL SUFFERED CONTUSIONS TO BOTH FEET-HEEL PORTION.

December 18, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING WASTE OIL BARRELS TO THE STORAGE AREA BEHIND THE MAINTENANCE SHOP. EMPLOYEE TRIPPED ON THE STEEL RACK AND FELL INTO THE RACK, SUSTAINING A CUT TO THE FACIAL ARE UNDER THE R IGHT EYE AND THE NOSE. THE INJURY REQUIRED ELEVEN SUTURES.

October 19, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

EMPL WAS MOVING AN ACETYLENE BOTTLE OVER SOME STEPS. BOTTLE SLIPPED FROM HANDS & HIT RIGHT BIG TOE FRACTURE BONE IN BIG TOE.

October 5, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Meridian Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DURING A MINOR MAINT. ROUTINE TO DIS-ASSEMBLE AN AUTO-SAMPLER, EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CRESCENT WRENCH TO LOOSEN A BOLT WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY RUSTED. WHEN THE BOLT CAME LOOSE UN-EXPECT-TANTLY THE EM PLOYEES HAND SLIPPED AND HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE SAMPLER FRAME, RESULTING IN A LACERATION TO THE FIFITH DIGIT AND A SIMPLE FRACTURE TO THE SAME FINGETIP.

September 6, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE PLACING STEEL PLATES IN A STEEL CONTAINMENT RACK USING A FORKLIFT TO TRANSPORT THE PLATES THE STEEL WAS SUSPENDED FROM THE FORKLIFT AND AS IT SWUNG EMPL FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE STE EL PLATE AND THE FORKLIFT FRAME CUTTING THE INSIDE OF THE INDEX FINGER

August 28, 1989 MN · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS REMOVING A NUT FROM THE SOCKET OF THE IMPACT WRENCH HE WAS USING WHEN HE ACCIDENT;Y HIT THE TRIGGER ON THE IMPACR WRENCH CAUSING A NUT TO SCREW ONTO HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER UP TO THE SECO ND JOINT.

August 18, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DURINGT FABRICATION OF A STEEL RACK EMPLOYEE HAD TACK WELDED A CROSS STRUT USING IT AS A STANDING RUNG TACK WELD FAILED & EMPLOYEE FELL FROM STEEL RACK APPROX 8FT TO FLOOR RESULTING IN SMALL L ACERATION TO BACK OF HEAD REQUIRING ONE STITCH

July 28, 1989 MN · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS SLIDING THE SCREEN OUT OF THE SIDE OF THE WASH DECK WHEN HIS GLOVE GOT CUAGHT ON THE SCREEN AND THEN WAS PINNED AGAINST THE WALL OF THE TOP DECK. AN EDGE OF A WIRE OF THE SCREEN CUT HI S FINGER.

July 21, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPL SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN CONCRETE FORM AND 4 X 4.

July 20, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSIDE GENERATOR VAN AT TIME OF INJURY. EMPLOYEE'S ARM WAS SEVERED TO THE ELBOW AND HE RECEIVED INTERNAL INJURIES.

July 15, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

WAS LIFTING METAL PLATE TO MOVE IT OVER WELDS BROKE ON BRACKET & DROPPED PLATE ON FOOT EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING STEEL TOE BOOTS

July 7, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

TURNING ON WATER SYSTEM ROCK CAME OFF CONVEY STRUCK HIM ON SHOULDER

May 13, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS USING A GRINDER WHILE REMOVING SLAG FROM AREA TO BE WELDED, HIT A CARITY AND THE GINDER KICKED BACK. HE LST CONTROL AND THE GRINDER CUT HIS FOREARM. THE CUT IS MINER IT TOOK SEVEN STI TCHES AND WILL NOT LOSE ANY MORE WORK.

April 8, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Gold Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A ROCK WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND THE BASE OF THE CONVEYOR WHEN HE TOUCHED THE ROCK WITH HIS HAMMER THE HAMMER ROLLED PULLING HIS R HAND UNDER THE ROCK AND CUTTING OFF THE TIP OF HIS LITTLE FINGER

March 28, 1989 MN · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WE HA DHIRED TWO INDEPENDENT CRANE CONTRACTORS TO COME IN AND HELP SET UP OUR NEWLY DESIGNED ATACKING CONVEYOR.THE ONE CONTRACTOR WAS EXTENDING HIS BOOM AND JIB CAME LOOSE FROM HOLDER SWINGING OUT FROM THE BOTTOM.THE JIB APPROX 15' IN HEIGHT AND WEIGHING APPROX 2000 LBS STRUCK PLANT MANAGER FROM THE BACK ON THE RIGHT SIDE.HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND THE JIB WENT ON TO HIT FOREMAN WHO

March 27, 1989 WY · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) Fatality · MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

VICTIM WAS WELDER HELER WELDER WAS CUTTING LOOSE TEAM WELDED TO A CONVEYOR. WHILE CUTTING BEAM LOOSE A TOP WELD BROKE AND BEAM FELL OVER AND STRUCK THE HELPER IN THE HEAD. CAUSING MAJOR HEAD I NJURIES.

March 1, 1989 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPL STATED TOI ME THAT AS HE CAME BACK TO CONTROL TOWER HE SLIPPED ON SNOW & FELL ON LEFT HIP & LEFT ELBOW.

January 11, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall from machine

EMPL HAD FUELED HAUL TRUCK.SLIPPED OFF LADDER ONTO MUDDY GROUND HURTING RIGHT ANKLE.

November 9, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A STEEL BEAM LOCATED ABOUT 12 FEET IN THE AIR WHEN THE BEAM COLLAPSED. THE WORKER FELL ON THE BEAM, BRUISING HIS ANKLE (RIGHT)

October 29, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

HE WAS REMOVING ROCKS FROM KEYWAY HE LIFTED A ROCK TO THROW IT OUT OF THE KEYWAY AND HURT HIS LOWER BACK BECAUSE OF LIFTING THE ROCK HE PULLED A MUSCLE AND SEVERE PAIN CAUSED HIM TO GO HOME H E THEN WENT TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED FOR A PULLED WING MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK

September 19, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF A D8H TRACTOR WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SOME MUD AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

August 29, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck against a moving object

OPER SHO VEL IN QUARRY AND SHOVEL JARRED HARD WHIEL TRYING TO DIG OUT ROCK CAUSING PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

August 29, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS FLAGGING ORE CONTROL ON SHOT MUCK.ROCK SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SLIP AND FALL. IN ATTEMPTING TO BRACE HIS FALL HE HIT HIS RIGHT HAND ON A SHARP-EDGED ROCK CAUSING A LACERATION.

July 30, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck against stationary object

REMOVING ROCK FROM CRUSHER USING A BRAKER BAR HIT HAND ON RAILING CAUSING A FRACTURE ON THIRK FINGER ON LEFT HAND

July 29, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Gold Company · Struck against a moving object

ACUTE LUMBAR SPRAIN/STRAIN DUE TO BOUNCING IN SEAT WHILE DRIVING EQUIP.

July 12, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal assistant mine foreman, assistant mine manager HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ON THE RAILROAD CAR TO RELEASE THE HAND BRAKE, THE BRAKE RELEASE WHEN HE PULLE HIMSELF UP ON THE HANDWHEEL, CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CHAIN AND STEP.

July 11, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Fall from machine

SLIPPED AND FELL WHEN GETTING OUT OF TRUCK TO TURN ON CONVEYOR BELT

June 23, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Gold Company · Fall from machine

EMP. WAS FUELIGN EQUIPEMNT FROM THE FUEL AND LUBE TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED OFF THE TRUCK TO THE GROUND, STRAINING HIS FOOT.

June 17, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Gold Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER WHEN AN AIRBORNE PARTICLE GOT INTO HIS EYE AND IT COULD NOT BE WASHED OUT WITH EYE WASH.

June 14, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A FIVE GALLON BUCKET ONTO THE FUEL TRUCK, EMPLOYEE FELT THE PAIN.

June 14, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meridian Aggregates Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATOR STEPPED BETWEEN TWO CATWALKS ON CRUSHER INJURING LEFT KNEE & LEG.

June 13, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

UNLOADING OF STEEL THREADED PIPE. PIPE CAUGHT ARM BETWEEN SIDE OF TRUCK AND END OF PIPE.

June 6, 1988 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck against a moving object

I,NAME WAS OPERATIN THE PIT LOADER LOADING SHOT ROCK WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS NECK, SHO3 THAT HE DID NOT PUT ON HIS JOB APP.

June 3, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

WAS INSTALLING LOADER TEETH ON LOADER 419 WHEN ONE FELL OFF AND HIT TOE

June 3, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Meridian Aggregates Company · Struck by falling object

ROCK FELL OFF THE SHAKERS AND HIT RIGHT LEG CUTTING IT

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