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April 22, 1991 VA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CROWBAR TO CHIP CONCRETE OUT OF THE PUGMILL. THE BAR SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE- TEMPLY AREA.

August 8, 1990 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPL WALKING BACKWARDS REMOVING WELDING LEADS-CABLES-TRIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS INTO FEED HOPPER ON GROUND BEING WORKED ON.

July 13, 1990 VA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL USING CABLE ATTACHED TO LOADER WHILE CHANGING CRUSHER BOWL.CABLE SNAPPED AND CABLE STRUCK EMPL IN CHEST AND STOMACH AREA.

April 30, 1990 VA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL & 2 OTHERS REMOVING STONE BIN SHAKER SCREENS AND PULLED GROIN MUSCLES.

January 24, 1990 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS IDSASSEMBLING A HYDRAULIC BODY LIFT ASSEMBLY ON A 35 TON DUMP TRUCK. HE WAS USING A PORTAPOWER WITH 4 11/2 SOCKETS AS SPACERS TO PUSH THE PIN OUT OF THE BUSHING. THE LIFT ASSEBLY WAS BEING HELD BY A STRAP CONNECTED TO THE WHEN ON THE CRANE OF A MECHANICS TRUCK TO HOLD IT SECURE. HE STUCK HIS FINGER INTO THE BUSHING TO RETREIVE THE LAST SOCKET WHEN THE LIFT ASSEMBLY MOV

August 9, 1989 VA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS UNHOOKING A PIECE OF STEEL RFROM A LOADER BUCKET WHEN THE STEEL WAS UNHOOKED IT FELL ON EMPLOYEES FOOT

January 9, 1989 VA · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE PLACING A SCREEN PLATE ON SCREEN IT SLIPPED & CUT THE END OF EMPLOYEES LITTLE FINGER OFF ON HIS RT HAND

October 8, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Fall onto or against objects

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OFF 988 LOADER FOOT SLIPPED AND HE BANGED HIS ELBOW

July 25, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Fall onto or against objects

STEPPED ON MUFFLER TO CHANGE BRAKE BOOSTER

July 8, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF STEEL WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK

May 3, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Virginia Trap Rock Inc · Fall from machine

WAS STEPPPING OUT OF A 3 SIDED HOPPER WITH A LOW LIP ON THE FOURTH SIDE <STARTING ON WORK SHOP FLOOR EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS TOE ON THE LIP FELL & TWISTED HIS KNEE

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