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September 8, 1998 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LEANED OVER TO LOOK AT BELT SCALE HARD HAT FELL OFF PICKED UP HARD HAT STOOD UP TO PUT HARD HAT ON WAS HIT ON HEAD WITH ROCK. WHERE ROCK CAME FROM UNKNOWN. POSSIBLY CAME FROM BELT.

July 21, 1997 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CHANGING AND SCREENS, AND TIGHTENING BOLTS, WRIST POPPED.

January 13, 1997 PA · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent MACHINERY
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WALKING THROUGH GARAGE WHILE A MAN WAS GRINDING WAS HIT IN SIDE OF FACE WITH FOREIGN MATTER HAD SAFETY GLASSES ON GOT IN AROUND GLASSES SOMEHOW.

August 21, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REPLACING ROOF ON CONTROL TOWER. EMP WAS HAMMERING A BOARD INTO PLACE AND ENDED UP SMASHING HIS LEFT THUMB.

June 27, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by flying object

HE WAS GROUNDMAN. WHILE HOSING THE WET PLANT CONVEYORS, A ROCK CAME OFF THE BELT AND HIT HIS LEFT LEG QUITE HARD. HIS SHIN SWELLED AND WAS BLACK AND BLUE FROM KNEE TO ANKLE.

May 20, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE INSTALLING SCREENS ON MAINDECK, THE SCREENS SLIPPED AND SLICED RIGHT UPPER ARM, RIGHT HAND AND LEFT FOREARM.

May 20, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by falling object

WHILE INSTALLING SCREENS ON THE MAIN DECK, THE SCREENS SLIPPED AND SLICED UPPER LEFT ARM.

May 8, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON DEISTER SHAKER, THERE WAS A SHORT. WHEN SLICING A WIRE WITH A KNIFE IT CAME UP AND SLICED HIS FACE. INJURY RESULTED IN 3 STITCHES TO THE CHEEK.

November 28, 1995 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Struck by flying object

A COWORKER WAS BURNING WITH A TORCH. EMP WAS IN THE GENERAL AREA WHEN A SPARK CAME OFF AND WENT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND IN LEFT EYE.

July 30, 1994 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Medure Aggregates Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS GOING TO DO REPAIRS ON THE ASPHALT SAND CHUTE. AS HE WAS WALKING UNDER THE MAIN SCREEN HE GOT STUCK IN THE MUD COMING OFF OF THE MAIN FEEDER AND HE FELL FORWARD. HIS LEFT LEG HIT THE CO RNER OF THE SCREEN GUARD FOR THE CRUSHER CONVEYOR TAIL PULLEY. A PIECE OF STEEL PUNCTURED HIS LEFT LEG WHICH HE IMMEDIATELY PULLED OFF AND CONTINUED ON HIS WORK

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