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July 4, 1987 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Fall from machine

MISSED LAST RUN1 OF LADDER WHEN DISMOUNTING MACHINE & FELL ONE FOOT TO GRTOUND & HURT BACK

October 13, 1986 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck by flying object

ROCK CHIP WAS T2ROWN FROM CRUSHER JAW AND HIT OPERATOR ON LIP CAUSING BRUISE.

October 5, 1985 HI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Fall onto or against objects

OPERATOR SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING LADDER WITH BUCKET OF WATER AND HIT HIS BACK ON A RAILING.

August 20, 1985 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REMOVING OVER SIZED ROCK FROM CRUSHER TONGS USED TO LIFT ROCK SLIPPED AND TONGS STRUCK FOOT BRUSING IT.

August 12, 1985 HI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE LIFTING 50# OF EXPLOSIVES I.NAME SPRAINED BACK.

June 26, 1985 HI · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE DRILLER WAS MOVING THE DRILL & COMPRESSOR ALONG A ROAD WAY . WHEN HE STARTED DOWN A SMALL TGRADE THE COMPRESSOR WAS PUSHING THE TRACK DRILL CAUSING THE STERRING TO REVERSE. THE DRILLER D DID NOT REALIZE THE STREERING HAD REVERSED AND WHEN HE TTRIED TO TURN THE DRRILL TURN THE OPPOSITE WAY HITTING HIM IN THE SHIN.

September 27, 1984 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Struck against stationary object

WHILE USING A PRYBAR RO REMOVE A ROCK STUCK IN JAWS OF CRUSHER BAR SLIPPED & EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON A GUARD RAIL

May 15, 1984 HI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hilo Coast Processing Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WHILE PRYING A ROCK IN THE CRUSHER JAW HE SPRAINED HIS SHOULDER EMP HAS BEEN PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY UNTIL RELEASED TO HIS REGULAR JOB BY THE DOCTOR

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