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April 12, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Mobile Premix Concrete · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WORKING AT A HOPPER FOR A CHUTE,EMPLOYEE HAD AN UNKNOWN OBJECT PENETRATE THROUGH THE GLOVE.

April 6, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Springer Building Materials Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING SPILLED MATERIAL ON TUNNEL FLOOR BACK ON THE TUNNEL CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS NECK.

March 29, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Paving Construction Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STANDING BY CHUTE BROKE A CHUNK OF ASPHALT WITH RIGHT FOOT. CATCHING FOOT IN MATERIAL WHICH RESULTED IN A DEEP BRUISE X RAYS WERE NEGATIVE.

March 18, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Western Paving Construction Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ATTEMPTING TO FASTEM CHAIN ON ROCK TO TIP IT INTO CRUSHER CAVITY WHILE TRYING TO FASTEN CHAIN TO LOADER BUCKET GAVE SIGNAL TO OPERATOR WHO LOWERED BUCKET CATCHING RT HAND BETWEEN HANDRAIL AN D BUCKET FRACTURED 2ND METACARPAL RT HAND

March 14, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mobile Premix Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND ROCK AND FELL BACKWARD ON ROCK.

March 9, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Western Paving Construction Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PUSHING A PIECE OF ASPHALT INTO CRUSHER WITH RIGHT FOOT.PIECE GAVE WAY.JARRED NECK-CERVICAL MUSCLE STRAIN.

February 25, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mobile Premix Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HANDING SCREEN MATERIAL CAUGHT FINGERS BETWEEN SCREEN AND FRACTURED TIP OF FINGERS BETWEEN SCREEN AND FRACTURED TIP OF FINGERS.BACK PLATE AT SCREEN FRAME WORK.

November 6, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STRIKING OR BUMPING
Mobile Premix Company · Struck against stationary object

GOING TO CRUSHE9 CONTROL TO SHUT DOWN AND STRUCK HEAD ON SUPPORT BRACE.

August 11, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Paving Construction Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE AND AN2THER EMPLOYEE WERE REMOVING A ROCK FROM CRUSHER CONE. WHEN LIFTING ROCK OUT OF CONE, EMPLOYEE HURT LEFT HIP.

July 27, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mobile Premix Concrete · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE LOST B5LANCE AND ELECTED TO JUMP TO THE GROUND.

June 11, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Mobile Premix Company · Struck against a moving object

FRONT END LOADE9 BUCKET JARRED WHILE OPERATING AT NORMAL ACTIVITY CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BOUNCE INSIDE LOADER. "POWERED HAULAGE"

May 15, 1987 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Springer Building Materials Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WENT UP THE 5ADDER TO C HECK BEARING ON DRYER LADDER SHIFT IN THE SAND & HHE TWISTED HIS KNEE TRYING TO MAINTAIN HIS BALANCE.

June 4, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mobile Premix Company · Struck by falling object

HOLDING A 2" PI9CE OF STEEL, THE EMPLOYEE DROPPED ONE SIDE AND IT PUNCTURED HIS LEG. THIS ACCIDENT REPORTED TO US 5 DAYS LATE ON 6-9-86

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