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May 20, 1986 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPL REMOVING W2OD PALLETS AND WAS BITTEN BY BLACK WIDOW SPIDER.

October 17, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING OFF BOLTS WITH TORCH

October 16, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMP WAS CUTING BOLTS OFF WOODEN BEAMS THAT HOLD TABLES UP THE GROUND WAS SLIPPERY EMP SLIPPED AND THE TABLE BEAM FELL ON H IS LEG EMP PASSED OUT FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN CRAWLED TO TRUCK AND DRO DROVE TO EXIT GATE ANOTHER EMP TOKK HIM TO THE DOCTOR

August 20, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPL WAS OPERATING A LATHE.SHAVINGS FELL TO FLOOR.EMPL ATTEMPTED TO PICK THEM UP BY HAND.SOME CAUGHT ON FLOORING AND WAS DRAWN ACROSS HAND CUTTING THROUGH GLOVE AND CUTTING LEFT FINGER.

July 26, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

CUTTING A PIECE OF PIPE WITH A TORCH AND A PIECE OF HOT SLAG GOT ON RIGHT EAR. INCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 8-8-85 AT WHICH TIME INFECTION HAD SET IN.

May 21, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS ADDING WATER TO T HE RADIATOR OF P-29 LOADER FROM A HOSE ATTACHED TO A SPRING EQUIPPED ELF WINDING REEL. EE WAS STNADIN ON LOADER & ATTEMPTED TO PULL MORE SLACK IN THE HOSE & TWISTED HIS KNEE IN THE ATTEMPT.

April 4, 1985 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A SECTION OF DAMAGED MILL ROD FROM MILL #2 (OXIDE). HE HAS DONE THIS JOB FOR YEARS, BUT IN SO DOING HE JERKED ON A ROD THAT HAD BECOME STUCK AMONG OTHERS THUS PRODUCING A PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS BENT OVER WITH ARMS EXTENDED IN FRONT OF HIM. PRELIMINARY DOCTORS REPORT INDICATES A BULGING DISC IN THE LOWER BACK.

November 13, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by flying object

EMPROPER MACHINE OPERATION-MACHINE TABLE WAS RAISED BY POWER FEED, INSTEAD OF HAND CRANK WHEN DRILL BIT MADE CONTACT WITH MATERIAL BEING DRILLED BITS CUTTING EDGE SHATTERED FRAGMENT STRUCK EMP LOYEES SAFETY GLASSES AND SHATTERED SAME, IT IS BELIEVED GLASS FRAGMENTS STRUCK EYE

October 16, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal security guard, watchman MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING ELECTRIC HEDGE TRIMMER TO TRIM HEDGE AND CUT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND

October 4, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SHOVELING OVER A PERIOS OF TIME AND DEVELOPED LOWER BACK PAIN.

September 6, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WORKING EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER MOVING SOME STEEL PLATES ON THE GROUND WHEN HE WENT TO GET UP HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

September 6, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A WELDING CABLE UP TO #2 S.H. CRUSHER WHEN THE CABLE COUPLING CAME LOOSE AND HE FELL.

August 31, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

A HOSE USED TO SEND GSX RAFFINATE SOLUTION TO DRYER SCRUBBER FOR CLEANING PURPOSES BEGAN LEAKING AND SPRAYED IN EMPLOYEES EYES WHILE HE WAS WALKING BY

July 5, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING A GUARD RAIL FELL OFF FROM AN OVERHEAD CRANE AND HIT HIM UNDER HIS RIGHT ARM INJURING RIBS.

April 9, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anamax Mining Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING THE MAIN 4-HOOK SAFETY SWITCH ON MAIN OXIDE CRANE. WHJEN DISMOUNTING THEHE LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO FALL HE HIT HIS HEAD AND LANDED ON A HANDRAIL ON HIS LEFT SID E HURTING HIS RIBS

March 14, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE UNLOAD R&O OUTSIDE THE OXIDE SHOP WHEN THE OPERATOR PUT OUT RIGGER DOWN ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

March 2, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS MILLING BOSS BARS IN THE MACHINE SHOP. WHILE SETTING BARS INTO PLACE ONE BAR HUNG UP, FELLOW WORKER WAS APPLYING PRESSURE BAR HUNG UP THEN SLIPPED, CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN BAR AN D PLATE.

February 2, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

DRILLING CATHODES FOR SAMPLES WHEN STACK OF COPPER CATHODES FELL OF LEFT HAND.

January 27, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN DOING A LOT OF PHYSICAL LABOR IN THE MINES AT THIS TIME AND HAD SEVERE PAIN IN THE LEFT SHOULDER AND ARM WITH MUSCLE SPASM AND INABILITY TO MOVE THE ARM. EXAM : SEVERE MUSCLE SPASM IN THE TRAPEZIUS TRIANGLE, NO WEAKNESS IN THE ARM BUT SEVERE LIMITED ROM.

January 21, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STRIPPING STARTER SHEETS WHEN THE END OF ONE OF THE SHEETS WENT THROUGH HIS LEATHER GLOVE CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER

October 6, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS OPERATING INTERLAKE MACHINE. WHILE LOADING IT WITH COPPER LOOPS FOR THE STARTER SHEET THE LOOPS SHIFTED AS EE WAS REMOVING THEM FROM RACK HITTING HIM ON TOP OF LEFT HAND.

September 16, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING LEACH DISCHARGE PUMP FOR OPERATION WHEN LEACH DISCHARGE SPRAYED IN HIS FACE AND BOTH OF HIS EYES.

September 12, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO ADJUST A MECHANICAL DEVICE ON A CATHODE BALE, A LOCK WAS THROWN ON THE DEVICE COMING DOWN AND CATCHING HISRIGHT WRIST.

August 28, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WORKING AT HOT DIP TANK IN TANK HOUSE. WHILE TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN A CATHODE, IT FELL FROM RACK AND CAUGHT THIRD AND FOURTH FINGERS OF RIGHT HAND BETWEEN CATHODE BAR AND TOP EDGE OF DIP TANK.

August 2, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent POWERED HAULAGE
Anamax Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROLLER FRAME WHEN HE GOT HIS LITTLE FINGER PINCHED BY THE ROLLER FRAME.

June 20, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GATHERING LOOPS TO BE POUNDED AT THE SECONDARY LOOP SLITTER, WHEN HE BENT OVER TO GATHER LOOPS A SHARP PAIN SHOT THROUGH HIS LOWER B ACK

May 17, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Anamax Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING HOOK KNIFE TO STRIP CABLE ON PV 6 BELT AND CUT RIGHT RING FINGER.EMPL CUTTING TOWARD RIGHT HAND HOLDING BELT.

May 13, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Anamax Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TRYING TO HELP GUIDE LOWER HALGF OF COOKER IN PLACE.PULLED ON CHOKER HOLDING COOKER,CHOKER SLIPPED AND PULLED AROUND CORNER CATCHING RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN CHOKER AND COOKER.WAS NOT USING GUIDE ROPE.

February 15, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anamax Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS APPLYING RUST PREVENTION TO A SHROUD ON A DRIVE SHAFT WHEN THE COUPLING SHROUD SLIPPED & CAUGHT HIS ELFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE SHROUD & SHAFT.

February 14, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anamax Mining Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS STANDIN G ON AN OILY SIRFACE WHEN HE WAS PULLING A PLATE FROM BEHIND A SHEER. HE SLIPPED & FELL INJURING HIS BACK.

February 2, 1983 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Anamax Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN IMPACT WRENCH TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON A MILL WHEN THE SOCKET CAME OFF THE WRENCH CAUSING HIM TO HIT SMALL FINGER OF RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE MILL.

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