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June 21, 1989 NY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
E F Lippert & Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE RUNNING TO LONG CONVEYOR THAT NEEDE IMMEIATE ATTENTION, HE SLIPPED ON THE SECOND RUNG OF LADDER. HE DID NOT STEP ON THE BOTTOM RUNG AND SINCE HE WAS RUNNING HE COULD NOT CATCH THE OTHER RAILING WITH HIS LEFT HAND. HE SLID ON THE LADDER AND PULLED HIS ARM WITH THE WEIGHT OF HIS BODY.

October 11, 1988 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
E F Lippert & Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE CHAIN ON THE TAIL GATE OF A SINGLE AXLE DUMP TRUCK BECAME LODGED. EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE CHIN WHENT HE TAILGATE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS FINGERS. EMPLOYEE WAS IMMEDIATLY TAKEN TO THE E MERGENCY ROOM. X RAYS WERE TAKEN. THEY WERE NEGATIVE HIS FINGERS WERE BANDAGED AND HE WAS TOLD TO STAY HOME FOR A FEW DAYS HE WAS ALSO GIVEN A TETENUS SHOT.

July 17, 1987 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
E F Lippert & Company Inc · Fall from ladders

EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING SCREENS ON OUT PROCESSING PLANT.HE WAS COMING DOWN THE LADDER ON TOP OF THE PLANT AND STEPPED OFF IT WRONG AND TURNED HIS ANKLE.

April 27, 1987 NY · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
E F Lippert & Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL REMOVING S2IVE FROM DRAGLINE USING ROD & HAMMER.HAMMER SLIPPED STRIKING LEFT HAND CAUSING LACERATION AND SWELLING.

May 4, 1985 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
E F Lippert & Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PLACING PIPE IN OLD WELL WHEN CHAIN UNHOOKED AND HIT HIS HAND.

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