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August 15, 2002 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE STACKER BELT DOING MAINTENANCE FOR THE GEAR BOX. AS EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING NTO HIS KNEES FOR CLIMBING OFF THE STACKER BELT, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON DIRT ON THE FRAME, THE EMPLOYE E THEN JUMPED FORWARD ONTO THE BELT TO AVOID FALLING OFF.

June 20, 2001 UT · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE TRACKHOE FOR ROCK CRUSHING, THE PIN HAD FALLEN FROM THE BOOM FROM THE ROCK CRUSHER, EMPLOYEE WAS RETRIEVING THE PIN FROM UNDER CONCRETE PIECE LIFTED THE ONE THE PIN WAS UNDER, AND IN DOING SO DISLODGED ONE PIECE OF CONCRETE ABOVE THAT AND SLID INTO AND CRUSHED THUMB.

June 16, 2001 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HAS BEEN EXPERIENCING PAIN INHIS LOWER BACK FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, AND HAS CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN PAIN.

March 20, 2001 UT · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS PLACING ANVILS INTO A BOBCAT BUCKET FOR MOVING AND WHILE PLACING AN 80 LB ANVIL IT SLIPPED SMASHING FINGER BETWEEN THAT ANVIL AND ANOTHER.

February 22, 2001 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE WATER TRUCK, SPRAY NOZZEL NEEDED TO BE ADJUSTED, THE DRAINED THE AIR LINE BY THE CAB, SHUT OFF THE TRUCK, AND PROCEEDED TO TURN TO SPRAY NOZZLE, DID NOT BLEED OFF TH E AIR LINE AT THE NOZZLE AND SO WHEN ADJUSTING THE NOZZLE THE METAL CAP ON THE END OF NOZZLE, CAPPING AIRLINE AND WATER, FLEW OFF HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE NOSE.

January 12, 2001 UT · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator MACHINERY
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OVER TIME OPERATING THE LOADER AND DOZER EMPLOYEE HAS FELT A TINGLING PAIN, OCCASIONAL CLICKING AND SOME NUMBNESS IN HIS RT HAND.

September 19, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

EE WAS STADNING BETWEEN #2 AND #3 SCREENS ON TIES, TRYING TO CLEAR A ROCK OUT OF THE ROLLER. EE HIT THE FRAME WITH AHMMER, HAMMER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT AND ROLLER, PULLING ARM INTO THE S HOULDER. EE THEN PULLED OUT HIS ARM.

September 12, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING LACING ON THE IMPACTOR BELLY BELT USING A DYE GRINDER; HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND A FACE SHIELD. THE WIND WAS BLOWING DUST, AND IT BLEW A PIECE OF ROCK OR SAND, IMBEDDING IT IN EMPLOYEE'S EYE JUST TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PUPIL.

March 15, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Staker Paving & Construction Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EE W/DIABETIC CONDITION STATES HE FELT HIS BLOODSUGAR GETTING LOW & TRIED TO CORRECT WITH CANDY WHEN HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FELL & STRUCK HIS HEAD CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING 8 STITCHES

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