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June 3, 2016 MS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · INUNDATION
Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A haul unit was being loaded by a track hoe and a slush pond dam broke and the slush came down on top of them burying them.

June 3, 2016 MS · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator Fatality · INUNDATION
Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A track hoe was loading a haul unit with gravel to take to wash plant and the dam on a slush pond broke and covered up both the tack hoe and the haul unit with the workers in them.

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