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November 2, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INSTALLING 12" PIECE OF PIPE ON DUST BUNKER DOOR. USING CABLE COME-ALONG TO PULL PIPE FLAT ON DOOR. HOOK ON COME-ALONG SLIPPED PINNING FINGER BETWEEN COME-ALONG AND FLOOR. 4TH FINGER ON LEFT H AND FRACTURED.

October 24, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING RODS IN RODMILL IN A BAD POSITION.

October 20, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPL PICKING CLAY WITH STEEL STICK BRUSHED HAND ON PLYWOOD WALLS OF CLAY STATION PICKING UP SPLINTER BY FINGERNAIL OF RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.

October 18, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING RAIL CONNECTIONS AND SWITCH BOLTS WITH A HAMMER AS HE WALKED LOCOMOTIVE BACK INTO PLANT AREA HE BENT OVER SWUNG THE HAMMER ONCE AND APPARENTLY SUFFERED SOME SORT OF SE IZURE HIS BODY STIFFEND AND SHOOK RAPIDLY I.NAME WAS NEARBY AND CALLED I.NAME LOCOMOTIVE OPERATOR AND THEY WENT TO I.NAMES AID I.NAME SAID I.NAME APPARENTLY LOST CONSCIOUSNESS HIS EYES ROLLED

September 30, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal shopman repair cars, mechanic MACHINERY
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING SLIGHTLY OVERHEAD ON VERTICAL PIPE AND WAS BURNED THROUGH COVERALLS WITH SPATTER. HE NOTICED A RED LINE RUNNING UP HIS ARM FROM THE BURN.

September 6, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPL COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN AT END OF SHIFT

September 1, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPL WAS DRIVING SCRAPER ON HAUL ROAD WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED BEE WHICH STUNG HIM.

August 29, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS ARRIVING AT WORK SPEEDING DOWN ROAD WHEN HE STRUCK ANOTHER EMPLOYEES PICK UP TRUCK.

August 26, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND CHIPPING SLAG WITH A HAMMER. WHILE HE WAS CHIPPING A PIECE OF METAL FLEW UP FROM HIS PROIJECT AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE.

August 13, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler MACHINERY
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE. WAS USING AN AIR IMPACT WRENCH TO BOLT A METAL STRAP TO THE FRAME OF A STICK PICKER. HE PUT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE STRAP AND FRAME TO HOLD THE BOLT IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE HOLE IN THE FRAME , AND WHEN HE TRIGGERED THE WRENCH, THE BOLT WENT HOME FASTER THAN THE EE ANTICIPATED SQUASHING HIS MIDDLE FINGER.

August 4, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WHEN CHANGING CHUTES HE PULLED MUSCLE AS HE PULLED ON COMEALONG.

August 3, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

LOADING BLAST HOLES. SPILL AMMONIUM NITRATE, FUEL OIL AND EMULSION MIXTURE ON ARM, CAUSING CHEMICAL DERMATITIS AND BURNS TO ARMS.

August 1, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

POUNDING PIECE OF STEEL INTO GROUND HE MISSED WITH HAMMER AND HIT IT HIS KNUCKLE OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

July 25, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMP WAS SHOVELING AWAY MATERIAL BUIDUP AROND CRUSHER AND THE STRAIN OF PROLONGED SHOVELING CAUSED STRAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

July 14, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I,NAME WAS ASSEMBLING CONVEYOR PULLEY & SHAFT, WHILE POUNDING A WEDGE INTO A BUSHING HE STRUCK THE TIP OF HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

June 15, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

NATURE OF EMPLOYEES WORK INVOLVES HEAVY LIFTING PULLING HAMMERING ETC.HE APPARENTLY NOTICED SOME PAIN IN HIS ARM APPROX.2MOS.AGO BUT THOUGHT IT WOULD GO AWAY IT WOULD RECEDE SOMEWHAT BUT DURIN G A PARTICULARLY STRENUOUS SHIFT ON 061588 THE PAIN BECAME GREATER & HE FELT IT SHOULD BE LOOKED AT

June 13, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS USING COMEALONG TO LIFT METAL HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF HANDLE & HIT A PIECE OF STEEL WITH ELBOW OCCURANCE JUST REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR AT THAT TIME ON JUNE 13 1988 HIT ELBOW AGAIN ON HAND RAIL WHILE INSTALLING GUARD LEFT ELBOW HAS BONE CHIPS

June 9, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING CAT SCRAPER HAULING DIRT FROM TERRACE PIT TO SURGE PIT WHEN SOMETHING BLEW INTO HIS EYE.

May 31, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING 20 LB HAMMER IN BASEBALL BAT FASHION TO TIGHTEN A NUT ON MAIN SHAFT CRUSHER ASSEMBLY AND APPARENTLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLES WHILE DOING SO

May 26, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPL WAS CUTTING STEEL FLT BAR WITH ROTARY SAW EHEN FOREIGN BODY ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE. HE WASHED IT OUT & DEBRIS WAS REMOVED.

May 14, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE COMPLETED 11 1/2 HR SHIFT ON SAT SAT EVENING HE NOTICED A SORENESS IN HIS RT ARM SORENESS DID NOT GO AWAY BY MONDAY AM WENT TO DR WHO SAID TENNIS ELBOW OR TENDENITIS NO ACCIDENT OCCUR ED DURING HIS SHIFT EMPLOYEE BEGAN VACATION ON 5-16-88

May 12, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RECEIVED GLANCING BLOW FROM SLEDGE HAMMER THAT GLANCEOFF OF BAR

May 2, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP STAIRS TO LUBE SHAKER WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RT KNEE

April 28, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING UNDER BELT OF CONVEYOR #002 TAIL PULLEY WHEN DIRT FELL INTO HIS EYE.

April 28, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

EMP. WAS GETTING OFF LOADER TO GO HOME WHEN HE STEPPED TO THE GRIUND HE SPRIANED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

April 26, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by falling object

I.NAME WAS WORKING ON SKIRTS ON CONV.53 WHEN CONVEYOR 65 STARTED UP ABOVE HIM WET SAND FELL INTO HIS EYE

March 29, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE HIT A PIECE OF PLOW STEEL WITH HAMMER TO FIT INTO PLACE AND A PIECE CHIPPED OFF AND STPCK IN HIS UPPER LIP

March 23, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS COMING DOWN STAIRS AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT SOMEONE TURNED OFF THE PLANT LIGHTS EMPLOYEE SLIPPED HITTING HIS HAND ON HANDRAIL

March 22, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMP WAS CLEANING UP N SCREEN DECK. HE WAS CLIMBING UP ON SCREEN DECK WITH 1 1/2 IN HOSE SLUNG OVER HIS SHOULDER, PULLING IT UP WITH HIM. WHEN HE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS NECK

March 15, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

EMPL REPAIRING SPEED ROLL GUARDS ON PC7 CONVEYOR WHEN HE JUMPED OFF BELT ONTO CATWALK.

February 18, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS PLANT YARD UNDER CONVEYOR BELT WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYE

February 17, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ON A BEAM OVERHEAD HE STOPPED CUTTING FLIPPED HIS BURNING GOGLES AND A PIECE OF RUST FELL IN HIS EYE

February 5, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

REMOVING SHOULD9R HARNESS FROM TELEPHONE, SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED CAUSING A PIECE OF METAL TO CUT HIS HAND BETWEEN POINTING FINGER AND MIDDLE FINGER.

January 19, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE MOVING MU8 PUMP, EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO LIFT THE PUMP AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

December 8, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal coal sampler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WASNT 8URE OF DATE OR IF HE WAS LIFTING SAMPLES OR SCREEN TRAYS WHEN HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN LOWER BACK HE DIDNT REPORT THIS AT TIME BECAUSE IT DIDNT HURT THAT MUCH A WEEK LATER THE PAIN WAS HURTI3G HIM SO WE SENT HIM TO CLINIC FOR THERAPY

November 30, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING SCREEN 94'X5') TO SCREEN STORAGE RACK. PALLET OF UNEVENLY STACKED SCREENS WAS IN FRONT TO RACK, IT WAS JUST LIGHT ENOUGH TO SEE WHERE HE WAS WALKING, BUT DARK IN THE RACK ITSELF ANDHAD 4UST STOPPED RAINING. EMPLOYEE DID NOT WANT TO STEP ON PALLET OF SCREENS SO HE THREW THE SCREEN INTO THE RACK WHERE IT APPARENTLY SNAGGED ON ANOTHER SCREEN AND BOUNCED BACK AT H

November 23, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG 3 FT PRYBAR TO MOVE TURBO CRUSHER LID BACK INTO PLACE.

November 18, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

INSPECTING ALIG3MENT BY COCKING HIS HEAD TO ONE SIDE WHILE LIFTING PUMP SHAFT.

October 24, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE AT PIT CO3VEYOR #10 SWITCH HOUSE EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING TRANSFORMERS WHEN HE WAS TIGHTENING CONNECTIONS HIS SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED AND CUT HIS FINGER

October 13, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HITTIN1 WEDGE END OF MOUNTING BELT ON MOVING JAW OF 48 X 60 JAW CRUSHER HAMMER HIT OPPOSITE LOW DIE CAUSING BLOW TO GLANCE OFF AND HIT FINGER RT INDEX FINGER FRACTURED PRESCRIPTION M EDICATION GIVEN3

October 6, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS UN1LUGGING ROCK FROM #1 GRIZZLEY HE REMOVED SAFETY GLASSES AND WIPED AWAY SWEAT FROM HIS LEFT EYE WITH HIS HAND WHILE WEARINF GLOVES DUST AND DIRT FROM GLOVE ENTERED EYE

October 1, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal assistant mine foreman, assistant mine manager HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLIMBING DOWN L5DDER OF 988 LOADER WHEN, STEPPED ON GROUND FELT BACK GIVE WAY. PHYSICAL THERAPY REQUIRED.

September 23, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I.NAME WAS STAN8ING ON CONVEYOR BELT WORKING ON SKIRTS WHEN I.NAME TOSSED HIM A SOCKET HE RACHED OUT TO CATCH IT & HIS ARM CAUGHT ON SKIRT BOARD

September 23, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

CUTTING A STEEL3PLATE IN HALF WHEN ONE HALF DROPPED OFF EMPLOYEE STEPPED BACK BRINGING THE WELDING T ORCH ACROSS WRIST 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS

September 21, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

STEPPED OUT OF 7AB OF TRUCK AND WHEN HE CONTACTED GROUND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

September 18, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

MOLSTEN METEAL 8RIPPED DOWN INSIDE HIS GLOVE WHILE HE WAS WELDING BURN BECAME INFECTED ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBED BY M.D.

September 14, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company · Struck by powered moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING UP ALONG CONVEYOR 67 NORTH SIDE AND RAN INTO AN OVERHANGING SPLITTER CAR. HE WAS WATCHING JUST AGEAD OF HIS FEET, AND CAR HIT HIS HARD HAT AT THE FOREHEAD.

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