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August 6, 2012 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator ELECTRICAL
Alpha Highwall Mining, LLC · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

While doing daily check on batteries, he got battery acid on face and in his eyes

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