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June 13, 2008 MN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Crushing concrete recycle. Concrete had long lengths of rebar and the rebar needed to be removed before entering the jaw crusher. Employee was standing on the catwalk and was struck by a 20 ft. long piece of rebar as it fell into the jaw crusher. Contusion to right hip and thigh.

October 16, 2007 MN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Working on a cone crusher changing liners. During a procedure of setting nuts into a tramp iron system, worker got his right hand 1st digit finger pinched setting one of the nuts.

May 15, 2007 MN · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

Driver climbed onto rear end of belly dump trailer, while walking on platform on left hand side of trailer, he tripped over the crossover bar and fell face first into an opening on the trailer frame. (This opening is manufacturer made to allow access to mechanical parts.) Driver suffered multiple contusions to back, chest and neck.

September 5, 2006 MN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee was coming down ladder from loader & as he approached the last step, he noticed a 2'square slab of rock on the ground & decided to use that rock as another step from the loader ladder. As he put his foot on the rock, the rock surface was slippery due to mud/clay & his foot slipped off. He caught himself from falling, but therefore strained his lower back.

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