EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE IN A LIMESTONE BOULDER. WITH A JACKHAMMER POWERED BY A COMPRESSOR. EE AND OTHER HEARD A POP SO THEY RAN TO HIS AID. OTHER SAW EE LYING ON THE GROUND, RAN TO HIM AND HELP ED HIM TO THIS FEET. THEY ALL HELPED EE TO THE PICKUP AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. SECULATION: JACK HAMMER FLEW UP AND HIT HIS CHIN AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN.
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October 5, 1993
NM · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
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C & E Concrete Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
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