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November 12, 2019 PA · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Keystone Anthracite Corporation · Struck by flying object

Dragline Oiler was hammering off broken dragline bucket tooth when a two-inch metal sliver (shrapnel) broke off the tooth and impaled the Dragline Oiler in the right thigh.

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