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October 16, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPL WAS PUTTING TRACK BACK ON FRONT IDLER PULLING & LIFTING STRAINING GROIN MUSCLES.

September 4, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Cedar Creek Quarries · Struck against a moving object

EMPL WAS DRIVING SUPERIOR ASHPHALT'S WATER TRUCK & INJ BACK BECAUSE OF BAD SEAT IN TRUCK. DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 10/12/91.

July 25, 1990 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Cedar Creek Quarries · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS CHAINGING DRILL STEEL WHEN HE LOOKED UP AND COLLAR ON DRILL FELL HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE.

May 23, 1989 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cedar Creek Quarries · Fall from piled material

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP ON TRUCK THEN ONTO LEDGE OF ROCK WHEN HE FELL BACK FROM LEDGE HIS BACK HIT TRUCK.

September 9, 1988 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPL WAS PULLING ON LEVER TO PEN BIN HE OVEREXERTED HIS BACK HE LOST NO TIME AND DID NOT RECEIVE ANY MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THE TIME HE LATER WNET TO DR OFF THE JOB REPORTED ACCIDENT TO HIS FORE MAN ON 9-13-88

March 22, 1988 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE JUMPED DOWN FROM EUCLID TRUCK TWISTING LEFT KNEE. EMPLOYEE REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT SAID HE WAS O.K.

March 7, 1988 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPL ALLEDGES WHILE LIFTING ROCK OUT OF FEEDER ON CRUSHER EMPL STRAINED CAUSING HIM TO HAVE A SMALL HERNIA.

January 19, 1988 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

TWISTED KNEE WH3LE PULLING ELECTRIC WIRE INJURED LEFT KNEE EMPLOYEE ALLEDGED PRIOR INJURY TO SAME KNEE IN MID 1970S NO RECORD ON FILE

December 5, 1987 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE BENT O5ER TO PICK UP POST AND STRAINED BACK EMPLOYEE WAS NOT LIFTING AT THE TIME

May 1, 1987 KS · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Creek Quarries · Struck by falling object

WAS CHANGING DR3LL STEEL AND DRILL STEEL COUPLER FELL ON HAND CUTTING PALM AND MIDDLE FINGER.

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