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August 27, 1999 SD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Brownlee Construction Inc · Fall from machine

OPERATOR STEPPED OFF BOTTOM STEP OF PAYLOADER AND TWISTED ANKLE.

June 30, 1994 SD · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Brownlee Construction Inc · Fall from machine

SETTING A CONVEYOR IN PLACE USING CHAIN ON LOADER. GUARD JERKED ANDMAN ON CONVEYOR SLIPPED AND HIT HIS SIDE ON PIECE OF HOPPER. KNOCKED WIND OT OF HIM. LATER IN EVENING STARTED HURTING INR IB AREA. HAD X-RAYS HSOWED 2 BROKE RIBS.

May 21, 1993 SD · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Brownlee Construction Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WATCHING THE FEED CONVEYOR AND A LARGE ROCK CLOSED THE REGULARY COAL HOPPER 2 AT HAS FINGER DOOR DID NOT GOES AUTOMATICALLY DOOR TO THE RISE OF THE ROCK.

June 25, 1992 SD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Brownlee Construction Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS REMOVING SOME BARBED WIRE AROUND A NEW PIT SITE HE CLIPPED WHILE PULLING IT AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

October 18, 1991 SD · Metal/Non-Metal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Brownlee Construction Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME REMOVING AIR FROM A TIRE WHICH WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND.THE TIRE BLEW WHEN HE TAPPED THE RIM WITH A HAMMER.HE WAS BLOWN DOWN TO THE GROUND FROM A SITTING POSITION AND STRUCK HEEL ON THE GROUND.

August 28, 1991 SD · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Brownlee Construction Inc · Struck against a moving object

WHILE DRIVING LOADER TO PUSHING A LOAD OF GRAVEL. ANOTHER LOADER OPERATOR WAS HOOKE UP AND HAMPER INTO EE LOOKS CAUSING WHIPLASH PULLED LIGAMENT IN NECK AND BACK.

August 5, 1991 SD · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Brownlee Construction Inc · Struck by flying object

OPERATING CRUSHER,POSSIBILITY THAT A BUG FLEW INTO OPER EYE.OPER NOT AWARE UNTIL THAT NIGHT THAT THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG.

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