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October 17, 2017 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. · Struck by falling object

A maintenance worker lost control of a small hammer. The hammer slid down the screen deck and bounced off the deck, striking a second employee in the nose, causing a laceration that needed sutures to close.

June 12, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Standard Slag Company · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

ACCUDENT OCCURR9D AT STANDARD SLAG COMPANY'S CAMBRIA QUARRY(MSHA ID NUMBER 3607394).CONTRACTOR EXPRESSLY INSTRUCTED AND SUBCONTRACTOR AGREED ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 11,1987,THAT THE EXCAVATION FOR THIS PROJE7T WOULD BE BENCHED AS REQUIRED BY 30 C.F.R. SECTION 56.3001 ET. SEQ. NVERTHELESS,SUBCONTRACTING COMPANY OWNER AND EMPLOYEES COMMENCED THE PROJECT AT 7:30 A.M. ON JUNE 12,1987,A

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