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October 24, 1988 IA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
L & W Construction Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CAT LOADER WAS CLEANING UP IN PIT CAT TRUCK PULLED BEHIND LOADER LOADER BACKED INTO FRONT END OF TRUCK CRUSHING DRIVER OF TRUCK BETWEEN LOADER AND TRUCK ON LADDER AS HE WAS DESCENDING LADDERWA Y

June 2, 1987 IA · Metal/Non-Metal rock driller POWERED HAULAGE
L & W Construction Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPL TRAVELING 0ROM QUARRY SITE TO PIT AREA TO CLEAN LEDGE TO PREPARE TO DRILL ANOTHER SHOT.STEERING LOCKED UP ON LOADER CAUSING LOADER TO GO OVER 4' BERM AND DOWN 10'BANK OVERTURNING.EMPL REC D LACERATION TO3RIGHT ARM AND BRUISES TO CHEST.

February 22, 1984 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
L & W Construction Company · Fall from ladders

INJURED SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING FROM SCREEN SECTION OF SECONDARY PLANT. LADDER WAS FROSTY & INJURED HAD FLASHLIGHT IN ONE HAND. INJURED FELL TO G ROUND RESULTING IN COMPRESSED FRACTURE OF LU MBAR VEREBRA.

March 17, 1983 IA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
L & W Construction Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

INJURED DEVELOPED BACK PROBLEMS AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO LIFTING A BELLY-PAN FOR A CATERPILLAR D-8 DOZER. THERE HAS BEEEN A QUIESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT JOB WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY. MR. BABB ITT WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL APRIL 28, 1983 WAS THE FIRST WE, THE EMPLOYER, KNEW OF THE INJURY.

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