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October 17, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person POWERED HAULAGE
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck against a moving object

BACKING PICK-UP DOWN OFF RAMP. GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE. PORTABLE WATER PUMP CAME OUT OF PICKUP AND PICKUP BACKED OVER WATER PUMP, MAKING PICK-UP GO OUT OF CONTROL AND TURNED OVER ON ITS TOP.

October 5, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Fall onto or against objects

CLEANING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH CRUSHER-SLIPPED ON WET MATERIAL & FELL AGAINST CRUSHER CONTUSION TO RT LOWER RIBS

July 16, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck by falling object

REMOVING A BELT BLANKET OFF FEEDER SCREEN. ROCK FELL OFF SIDE OF FEEDER AND HIT MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. CUT OFF TIP OF MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

November 15, 1989 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

WORKING ON DOZER HYDROLIC LINE HYDROLIC LINE BROKE & SHOT HOT HYDROLIC OIL ON FACE.

July 29, 1989 MO · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor ELECTRICAL

ADJUSTING HEAD PULLEY AND RECEIVED ELECTICAL SHOCK, JUMPED OFF CRUSHER AND LANDED ON HEEL AND CRACKED BONE IN HEEL.

October 27, 1987 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

RAISING ENGINE 9ND OF LOADER TO CHANGE TIRE WITH ANOTHER LOADER,REACHED TO BLOCK AXLE WITH BLOXK,LOADER MOVED AND CAUGHT ARM BETWEEN TIRE AND BUCKET OF LIFTING LOADER.

October 24, 1987 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL NOTICED OI5 LEAKING FROM TOP OF RADIATOR AREA WHILE ENGINE RUNNING PUT LEFT HAND AROUND AREA OF LEAK-FAN GLAZED AND CUT 2 FINGERS.

March 30, 1987 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMP WAS WORKING3ON TRUCK WHEN THE WRENCH HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND HIT HIM BETWEEN THE EYES

September 8, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS TU9NING OFF GENERATOR WITH LEFT HAND WHEN RT HAND GOT INTO FAN THIS FAN DOES HAVE A GUARD ON IT

July 17, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS RA3SING DRILL STEEL WHEN BOLT ON BOTTOM OF DRILL BROKE LETTING DRILL STEEL FALL AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON FOOT.

August 13, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent ELECTRICAL
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Contact with electrical current

WORKING ON ELECTRICAL PROBLEM ON ROCK CRUSHER PLANT. FLIPPED BREAKER TO RESET AND BALL OF FIRE CAME OUT AND BURNED BACK OF LEFT HAND.

July 6, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Farmers Stone-Trager Quarries Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON WATER PUMP TRYING TO GET IT TO PUMP HOSE BLEW OFF WHERE IT CONNECTED TO PUMP SPRAYING HOT MUD ON EMPLOYEES ARM AND SIDE HAD 2ND DEGREE BURNS ON RIGHT ARM AND SIDE

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