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May 7, 1999 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES
Bolivar County Gravel Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEES ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EMPLOYEE S FELL INTO WATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.

May 7, 1999 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES
Bolivar County Gravel Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYPING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EE, EE AND OTH ER EE FELL INTO WATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.EE WAS RECOVERED, OTHER DROWNED.

May 7, 1999 MS · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger Fatality · OTHER

EE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYPING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EE FELL INTO W ATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.

June 30, 1993 MS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

WORKING ON AN ENGINE IN ENGINE ROOM EMPLOYEE FELT STING ON LOWER RIGHT ARM.

June 22, 1993 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand MACHINERY
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURIES TO THE TOP OF THE LEFT HAND RECEIVED WHEN OPERATING WENCHES ON A TOW BOAT. WHEEL HIT WINCH ON LEFT HAND.

June 1, 1992 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS PULLING A TIRE OFF THE LOADER AND STRAINED A CHEST MUSCLE.

July 30, 1991 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN ROPE & IRON STRUCTURE ROPE WAS BEING PULLED USING FRONTEND LOADER ROPE CAME LOOSE & BACKLASHED STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEG & BROKE LEFT LEG BELOW KNEE

March 29, 1991 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON CABLE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE IT AND PULLED SHOULDER MUSCLE.

March 13, 1991 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS UNTYING A ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE BARGE WHEN ROPE SLIPPED AND SNATCHED ARM INTO THE TIMBERHEAD OF THE BARGE. FRACTURED LEFT WRIST.

December 3, 1990 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WORKING WITH ROPES HOLDING BARGE ROPE BROKE HITTING EMPL ON SIDE OF HEAD. EMPL NOT SERIOUSLY INJ KNOCKED GLASSES OVERBOARD DID NOT HAVE TO GO TO MEDICAL DR.

July 19, 1990 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UPHILL;TRIPPED AND FELL AND STRAINED BACK.

April 6, 1990 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO HIT CHISEL AND A PIECE OF CHISEL BROKE OFF AND ENTERED LEFT INDEX FINGER CUTTING IT.

December 26, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by falling object

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF RAISING THE SPUD ON THE DREDGE A PIECE FELL OF THE SPUD STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

December 26, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE BLUEGILL BOAT FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER WHEN BACKWASH FROM THE TOWBOAT CAUSED SMALL BOAT AND DREDGE TO BE THROWN INTO ONE ANOTHER WITH EMPLOYEE CAUGHT INBETWEEN.

November 6, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CRANKING AN ENGINE WITH A HAND CRANK & STRAINED SOMETHING IN LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY

August 8, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand STRIKING OR BUMPING
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

STEPPED DOWN IN DREDGE WALKED IN METAL OBJECT SCRATCHED EYE

June 9, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPL WAS WALKING FROM ONE COMPARTMENT OF DREDGE TO ANOTHER SLIPPED IN DIESEL FUEL THAT HAD BEEN SPILLED & FELL TO FLOOR BRUISING LEFT RIB & PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM TRYING TO BRACE HIMSELF AG AINST FALL.

March 16, 1989 MS · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) FIRE
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING GARBAGE INTO FIRE AND AN AEROSOL CAN BLEW UP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BE BURNED IN THE FACE.

July 10, 1988 MS · Metal/Non-Metal FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Struck by falling object

I WAS ONLY AWARE OF ACCIDENT ON 2-10-89 I CONTACTED GRAVEL COMPANY FOREMAN AND HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT THIS FORMER EMPL HAD ANY SORT OF ACCIDENT I WAS BOUGHT A NOTE FROM THE DR BY I NAME ON 2-10 -89 WHEN WE FINALLY RECEIVED THE MEDICAL REPORT FOR THE DR IT STATED THAT I NAME HAD AN ACCIDENT ON 7-10-88 WHEN A METAL BEAM THAT HE WAS STANDING UNDER FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS SHOULDER CAUS

October 20, 1987 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SEVERAL MEN PUS2ING ON TIMBER AND FOOT SOMEHOW GOT UNDER IT.THE TIMBER WAS RELEASED AND FOOT WAS INJURED.

September 18, 1987 MS · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS (TOXIC AGENTS)
Bolivar County Gravel Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

THE INJURED WAS3WELDING IN SOME BARGES SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND THERE WAS NO VENTILAITION. RECENT DIAGNOSIS BY A LOCAL DOCTOR SHOWS HIM TO HAVE VERY SERIOUS RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS AS A RESULT OF TH IS. HE HAS ALSO3SEEN A SPECIALIST IN MEMPHIS. I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT DATE OF THIS WELDING THEREFORE,I CANNOT GOVE YOU AN ACCIDENT DATE. THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO HAVE DEVELOPED OVE APERIOD OF TIM

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