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April 28, 2014 NV · Metal/Non-Metal stoper miner Fatality · MACHINERY
Klondex Midas Operations, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee had partially drilled a hole using a jackleg drill. A coworker discovered him unconscious/unresponsive, slumped over the drill. It was later determined the employee's clothes were wound up in the 6' drill steel though the cause & nature of the accident & cause of death remain undetermined and under investigation.

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