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October 10, 1988 OH · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Three Locks Construction Company · Fall from machine

HELPING PUT TOP ON EUCLID BOTTOM DUMP FEET SLIPPED FELL OFF HITTING BACK ON FRONT BUMPER

August 25, 1988 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Three Locks Construction Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

STARTING DUMP TRUCK BACKFIRED THROUGH CARBURATOR BURNT NECK & LEFT HAND HURT RIGHT KNEE WHEN HE JUMPED OFF TRUCK HAD SECOND DEGREE BURNS ON NECK & LEFT HAND CONTUSITON OF RIGHT KNEE.

July 21, 1987 OH · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Three Locks Construction Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DOZER OP WAS AT7EMPTING TO PULL A LOWBOY TRACTOR/TRAILER OUT OF A SOFT GROUND AREA WHERE IT WAS STUCK. A HEAVY DUTY TYPE CHAIN WAS CONNECTED TO T HE REAR OF THE DOZER & FRONT OF THE LOWBOY. WHILE THE DOZE9 WAS PULLING THE HOOK ON THE LOWBOY END OF THE CHAIN HOOK BROKE WHICH IN TURN KICKED THE CHAIN BACK TO TEH DOZER WITH THE BROKEN HOOK STRIKING THE DOZER OP ON THE LEFT SIDE O

July 10, 1987 OH · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman ELECTRICAL
Three Locks Construction Company · Flash burns (electric)

CONTRACT ELECTR3CAN WAS A HEPTING TO TEST A 440 AMP FUSE LINK BY BY-PASSING THE FUSE USING A JUMP CABLE, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO DO SO THERE WAS N ELECTRICAL ARCH TO THE ELECTRICANS RIGHT ARM CAUS ING THIRD DEGRE9 BURNS TO THE RIGHT HAND AND TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE RIGHT ARM 4" ABOVE THE ELBOW.

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