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November 14, 1995 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING 80 LBS BAGS OF CONCRETE ON SIDE OF HILL.HURT UPPER & LOWER BACK. FILED LATE DUE TO PHYSICIAN'S REPORT.

August 15, 1995 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS MOVING RAIL ROAD TIES & CUT LEFT MIDDLE FINGER

July 21, 1995 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EEW AS CHANGING BELTSON DISTER TABLE AND GOT HIS FINGER BETWEEN SHEAVE AND MAIN DRIVE & CUT HIS FINGER.

May 1, 1995 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WET GROUND FROM SO MUCH RAIN EE WAS WALKING THREW THE THICKNER SLIPED & TWISTED HIS KNEE

March 31, 1995 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

CHANGING TIRE ON 800 MACK TRUCK STRAIN LOWER BACK

April 14, 1994 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Fall down raise, shaft or manway

INJURED WAS CHANGING SECTOR'S ON A 10'6" PETERSON FILTER AND A CO-WORKER HIT HIS LEFT RING FINGER WITHA SLEDGE HAMMER IT CUT AND BROKE THE FINGER INJURED WAS WEARING GLOVES.

January 24, 1994 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE TAILGATE LATCH DID NOT MAKE PROPER CONTACT, HE THEN PULLED THE TAILGATE BACK THE RELEASED IT WHEN HIS GLOVE AND FINGER BECAME TRUPPED BETWEEN THE BED AND TAILGATE. THIS SEVERED THE END O F HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

November 15, 1992 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Belmar Coal Processing Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING ACETYLENE CYLINDER STRAINED LOWER BACK.

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