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October 3, 1991 IL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Lake County Grading Inc · Struck against a moving object

LOADING CONCRETE CHUNKS AND WIRE A PIECE OF CONCRETE WITH REINFORCEING WIRE EXPOSED TIPED CAUSING WIRE TO PUNCTURE LEG. OPERATOR WAS NOT CONCERNED AT TIME OF ACCIDENT HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL A TT. AS HE WAS TOLD AT THAT TIME. TWO WEEKS LATERREDNESS AND TENDERNESS STARTED.

March 23, 1991 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Lake County Grading Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATOR WAS BACKING FROM UNDER A CONVEYOR WHEN STRUCK ON RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD ABOVE THE EAR WITH A BLUNT OBJECT OF UNKNOWN MATERIAL POSSIBLALY CONCRETE OR REBAR HE WAS NOT WEARING A HARD HAT.

September 8, 1987 IL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lake County Grading Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATOR HAD MU8 ON BOOTS AS WELL AS MUD BEING ON LADDER TREADS HE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED FROM LADDER HE TRIED TO STOP HIS FALL BY TRYING TO GRAB LADDER AND W RAPPED HI S ARM AROUND TR9AD CAUSING FRACTURE TO FOREARM

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