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May 19, 2003 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Duchesne County · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WORKING ON CRUSHER, PRIMARY CONVEYOR BELT STOPPED. WE FIGURED IT WAS EITHER THE GEAR BOX WENT OUT OR A ROCK. CRUSHER WAS SHUT DOWN & BELT WAS NOT RUNNING. I WALKED OVER TO RETURN BELT & STUMBLED ON SOME LOOSE ROCKS, LOST MY BALANCE. I HAD PRY BAR IN MY HAND TRYING TO PRY A ROCK LOOSE IF NEEDED. THE PRY BAR FELL AGAINST RETURN BELT, BOUNCED & CAUGHT ME ON LEFT SIDE OF LEFT EYE

January 22, 2003 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Duchesne County · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THEY WERE PUTTING NEW CUTTING EDGES ON THE D8, RACHET SLIPPED GEARS WHEN THEY WERE TIGHTENING ONE OF THE BOLTS AND EE SLIPPED BACKWARDS. LATER THAT EVENING HE STARTED HAVING MUSCLE PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT BACK.

December 17, 2002 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Duchesne County · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS GETTING OFF FROM LOADER WHEN HIS FEET HIT ICY GROUND, HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL ON THE ICE AND BROKE HIS TAILBONE.

June 6, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Duchesne County · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE CLIMBED IN THE CAT AND STARTED IT, CLIMBED OUT AND UPON STEPPING ON THE GROUND FELT HIS BACK MUSCLES PULL AND START HURTING.

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