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August 11, 2020 ME · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Genest Concrete Works Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee stated on 8/12/2020 that employee felt some lower back pain after shoveling the previous day. After lengthy evaluation, determined to be a pre-existing degenerative disc condition that was aggravated by work activity.

September 10, 2004 ME · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Genest Concrete Works Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING A HAND WINCH AND THE LOCKING MECHANISM FAILED TO ENGAGE, CAUSING THE HANDLE TO STRIKE HIM IN THE FOREARM.

November 16, 2000 ME · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Genest Concrete Works Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE WORKER WENT TO CLOS THE DUMP TRUCK GATE. A ROCK WAS WEDGE UN TE GATE AND WHEN HE REMOVED IT THE GATE SLIPPED OUT OF HIS RIGHT HAND, PINCHING HIS LEFT HAND MIDDLE FINGER. FINGER WAS FRACTUR ED AFTER 1ST JOINT.

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