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July 25, 2025 - · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Concretos de PR Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While working with a shovel in the plant area, EE felt a sharp lower back pain.

June 2, 2025 - · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Concretos de PR Inc · Struck by falling object

While the employee was working on the hopper area, supposedly a rock felt and hit EE in one of EE's shoulders.

June 4, 2021 - · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Concretos de PR Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While installing the drum pulley IE was trying to accommodate the part in the right position, with the help of another EE. EE told the excavator operator, to lift the drum pulley in order to put it in place. Somehow IE had IE's left forearm between the drum pulley and the guards, and IE was smashed, causing small bruise.

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