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June 1, 1989 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Carbon Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING BACKDUMP AND ALLEGES THAT THE SEAT BOUNCING UP AND DOWN CAUSED A HERNIA IN HIS SIDE.

May 19, 1989 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Industrial Carbon Corp · Struck against a moving object

I NAME WAS OPERATING DOZER AND ALLEDGEDLY RAN OVER SOME BIG ROCKS CAUSING DOZER FRONT TO REAR UP AND SHOOK HIM UP CAUSING NECK AND BACK STRAIN. ACCORDING TO HIS FOREMAN HE WAS WORKING 3RD SHIF T WHEN THIS OCCURRED AND MENTIONED IT A WEEK LATER.

February 14, 1989 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Industrial Carbon Corp · Contact with hot objects or substances

LOADER BLEW A HYDRAULIC HOSE, MACHINE WENT DOWN AND WHILE HOSE WAS BEING CHANGED OUT, HE GOT HIS LEG AGAINST HEAT FROM HYD PUMP. HE DID NOT FEEL IT BURN UNTIL TOO LATE. WAS OFFEERED TO BE TOOK TO DOCTOR BUT DECLINED AT THAT TIME.

January 27, 1989 KY · Coal superintendent HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Industrial Carbon Corp · Struck by flying object

PUTTING A LIP ON A LOADER BUCKET. WHEN LINING IT UP AND STRIKING ON IT WITH HAMMER, A SLIVER OF METAL FLEW OFF AND ENTERED LEG ABOVE THE KNEE.

April 8, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Carbon Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE RADIO ME AND COMPLAINED HE INJURED HIS BACK WHEN HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE DRIVING AROUND THE JOBSITE ON THE IDA CARBON AND HIT A POTHOLE IN THE ROAD.

March 11, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Industrial Carbon Corp · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IN MARCH , 1988 EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF STIFF NECK, BUT SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS ARTHRITIS COMPLANIED OF NO ACCIDENT OR INJURY. ON MARCH 11, 1988 EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS GOING TO A DOCTOR FOR RIGH T HAND BU TINDICATED NO ACCIDENT OR INJURY.

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