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February 24, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

SHAKING ISA SOL6TION IN SAMPLE BOTTLE -GRAIN OF SOLID NAOH CAUSTIC FLEW OFF OUTSIDE OF BOTTLE INTO RIGHT EYE.

February 22, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Struck against stationary object

EMPL REMOVING C2IPPED PAIN WHEN FINGER PUNCTURED BY SHARP FRAY OF METAL-PUNCTURE WOUND OF MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND.CLEANING TANK WITH PAINT SCRAPER AND WIRE BRUSH.WORKED UNTIL 2-27-87.

August 22, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Struck against a moving object

A DOZER MADE CO3TACT WITH SCRAPER TO PUSH SCRAPER PULLED AWAY FROM DOZER WITH OUT THE OPERATOR KNOWING SO WHEN SCRAPER STOPPED DOZER HIT SCRAPER HARDER THAN USUAL EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK FROM BEH IND BY DOZER WH3LE HE WAS OPERATING A 631 C SCRAPER

August 19, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATING SCRAP9R PINCHED NERVE IN RT SHOULDER

August 6, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

REPLACING CUTTI3G EDGES ON SCRAPER 204 WAS USING STEEL PRY BAR AT T IME OF ACCIDENT TO RAISE A CUTTING EDGE INTO POSITION CUTTING EDGE SLIPPED DOWN ON BAR PINCHING WEB BETWEEN THUMB AND FIRST FINGER OF RT HA3D FIRST AID GIVEN ON J OB THEN TAKEN TO EMERGENCY RECEIVING AT HOSPITAL

February 7, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE WELDING O3 A BYPOCHLORITE BARREL HIS EYES STARTED BURNING

January 23, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATING THE H5ND CRUSHER AND WRENCHED HIS BACK OR SOMETHING AS STATED BY EMPLOYEE

October 2, 1985 CA · Metal/Non-Metal MACHINERY
Goldstripe Joint Venture · Fall from machine

INJURED JUMPED FROM AN INGESOLL RAND ROLLER SP54 WHICH HAD GONE OUT OF CONTROL AND HE WAS UNABVLE TO STOP HE SUFFERED FRACTURES TO HIS LEFT LEG AND RT ANKLE

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