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January 8, 2004 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
The Pacific Lumber Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While shoveling mud from around a tail pulley, he twisted knee.

October 7, 2003 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
The Pacific Lumber Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

OPERATING EXCAVATOR, WHEN THE DOOR WAS CLOSED FINGER GOT CAUGHT AND SPLIT AT THE END.

April 9, 2003 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
The Pacific Lumber Company · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

EE WAS TRAINING THE CONVEYOR BELT AND AS HE WAS OBSERVING TO SEE IF IT WAS DONE, HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE ROLL AND THE BELT. HE ENDED UP WITH A BROKEN BONE AND BRUISED RIGHT HAND.

January 31, 2003 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
The Pacific Lumber Company · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

BLOW BAR SLIPPED FROM BRACKET AND HE REACHED TO GRAB THE BLOW BAR (AUTOMATIC REFLEX) FROM FALLING AND HE SMASHED HIS LITTLE FINGER IN BETWEEN BLOW BARS.

August 20, 2001 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Pacific Lumber Company · Struck against a moving object

ON 9-27-01 EE INFORMED US HE WANTED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR. ON 9-28-01 HE SAW THE DOCTOR. HE WAS DETERMINED TO HAVE A BACK AND NECK STRAIN FROM RUNNING THE LOADER AT THE WASH PLANT ROCK YARD. IT HAPPENED IN AUG WHEN, WHILE OPERATING THE LOADERHE WENT OVER A BUMP.

May 29, 2001 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
The Pacific Lumber Company · Struck against stationary object

WHILE CLEANING OUT THE SCREENS, HE WAS ON HIS STOMACH AND CRAWLING, WHEN HIS BACK HIT A RUBBER ROLL. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND HIS BACK PAIN GOT WO5RSE. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE NEXT MORNING.

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