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August 26, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ON COLOR DECK AND STEPPED UPON MOVEABLE STEP-PLATFORM PICKED UP A BAG OF PIGMENT AND WHIE TURNING STEP/PLATFORM WAS NOT STABLE. I.NAME TRIED TO KEEP BALANCE AND STRAINED BACK.

August 1, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING COLOR CHANGE AND USING A 8' POLE TO HIT SIDES OF HOPPER WHEN POLE SLIPPED FROM HANDS COMING BACK AT HIT MANS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

May 17, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WAS ON THE ROOFTOP WITH A MAINT.MAN THEY WERE PATCHING THE FEED HOSE TO THE OIL PRODUCT R TANK WHEN I.NAME TOOK THE RAZOR KNIFE AND WAS PULLING IT TOWARDS HIMSELF IT CAME UP OUT OF HOS E AND PUNCTURED HIS LEFT THIGH

April 28, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Fall down stairs

EMPLOYEE WAS FINISHINING UP MAINT REPORT AND WAS COMING DOWNSTAIRS AND HIS HEEL CAUGHT ON ONE OF THE STEPS HE HELD ON TO HAND RAIL AND IT TWISTED HIM AROUND AND PULLED HIS BACK

February 20, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING CRUDE ROCK PUT OUT FROM AN OVER SPILL, AND TURNED AND HIT HIS ELBOW ON NORTH WALL OF CRUDE ROCK PIT. LUMP SHOWED ITSELF AND WAS LEFT ALONE TILL EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO DCO DCOTOR DRAINED LUMP AND SENT EMPLOYEE BACK TOWORK.

February 10, 1988 AR · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INITIAL INVESTIGATION SHOWS EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SWING A METAL FRAME ATTACHED TO A WINCH TRUCK SO THAT IT WOULD PASS BENEATH A PHONE WIRE THIS CAUSED THE CABLE HOOK TO SLIP ON CROSS BRAC E ALLOWING THE METAL FRAME TO SLIDE DOWNWARD & STGRIKE THE TRUCK BED A& EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND

July 13, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NING SCREENS, ON THE 722-A SCREEN. WHEN HE PULLED HIMSELF OFF OF SCREEN AND BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON THE SUPPORT CABLE. THE LUMP SHOWED ITSELF UPON IMPACT.

June 23, 1987 AR · Metal/Non-Metal security guard, watchman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Gs Roofing Products Company Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS2AS HE STEPPED FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER,HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING A FALL AND TWIST TO HIS BACK.

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