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June 28, 1989 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
T Brown Constructors Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A CONVEYOR BELT IN PLACE AND STRAINED HAND AND WRIST.

September 9, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
T Brown Constructors Inc · Struck by falling object

ROCK FELL OFF CONVEYOR BELT AND HIT IN BACK, CAUSING BRUISE OR POSSIBLE STRAIN.

August 5, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
T Brown Constructors Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PRYING ROCK OUT OF PRIMARY WHEN BAR BOUNCED BACK AND HIT IN ABDOMEN. MISSED AFTERNOON OF 8/5/88 ONLY.

July 9, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
T Brown Constructors Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PRYING ROCKS OUT OF PRIMARY WITH SCALING BAR WHEN ROCK ROLLED OFF PILE AND HIT SCALING BAR WHICH HIT HIM IN MOUTH.

March 28, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
T Brown Constructors Inc · Fall from machine

HE WAS CLIMBING OFF LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FRACTURED LEFT ANKLE.

March 15, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
T Brown Constructors Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS LAID OFF 3018088 DUE TO POOR PERFORMANCE AND ON 3/22/88 HE CALLED AND SAID HE HAD HURT HIS BACK ON 3/15/88.

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