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December 30, 1998 OH · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Van Wey Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS TRYING TO GET INTO HIS CAT 400 ARTICULATER TRUCK. IT WAS A SNOWY, ICY MORNING WITH ICE ONTHE STEPS GETTING INTO THE TRUCK. EE SLIPPED TRYING TO REACH THE DOOR HANDLE & WHEN HE FELL BACK HIS FOOT REMAINED IN THE STEP RING, WHICH TWISTED HIS KNEE ON THE WAY DOWN

October 17, 1997 OH · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Van Wey Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE TRYING TO CHANGE THE TRIPCABLE. INJ EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT THE CABLE BACK INTO THE CROWS FOOT WHEN IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND HIT HIM IN THE FOREHEAD. EE HAD TO HAVE 9 STITCHES DO TO HIS LACERATIONS.

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