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December 30, 1991 FL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Carroll Contracting & Ready-Mix Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

THE EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE ENGINE OF A D9L DOZER. HE STATES HE PUT ONE LEG INTO THE ENGINE COMAPRTMENT, AND LIFTED OUT AN ENGINE CYLINDER LINER (8-9 LBS.), AND TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY TO SET THE LINER DOWN. HE STATES HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AFTER SETTING DOWN THE LINER.

May 21, 1991 FL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Carroll Contracting & Ready-Mix Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS OPERATING A BOBCAT MACHINE CLEANING DEBRIS FROM AROUND THE CRUSHER UNIT HE STA TES THE INJURY DID NOT BOTHER HIM INITIALLY BUT GRADUALLY BECAME WORSE OVER THE NEXT THREE WEEKS EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON LEFT FOREARM BY A FIST SIZED ROCK FROM THE CRUSHER UNIT EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 06-11-91

June 3, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Carroll Contracting & Ready-Mix Inc · Struck by falling object

A LOADER OPERATOR WAS CARRYING A LOAD OF ROCK TO THE CRUSHER LOADING AREA WHILE THE LOADER WAS STOPPED A LARGE ROCK FELL OUT OF THE BUCKET AND STRUCK AN EMPLOYEE ON THE ARM THAT WAS STANDING N EAR THE LOADER DIRECTIN THE LOADER INTO PROPER ALIGNMENT THE LOADER WAS NOT MOVING AT THE TIME NOR WAS IT STRUCTURALLY UNSOUND

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