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April 15, 2012 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Alpha Highwall Mining, LLC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Removing a chain and finger got caught between hook & chain link.

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