A NON EMPLOYEE CUT A TREE ON PERMITTED LAND IN DADVANCE OF STRIPPING OPERATION THE TREE WOULD NOT FALL AND HE PROCEEDED TO CUT OTHERS NEARBY WIND APARENTLY BROUGHT TREE DOWN ON VICTIM WHO WAS APPROX 60 FEET FROM BASE OF TREE CAUSING CRUSHING FATAL INJURIES
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Pretzel Excavating · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
September 15, 1984
WV · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
MACHINERY
Pretzel Excavating · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
WORKERS WERE USING WOODEN BLOCKS TO BREAK LOOSE HI LIFT TIRE WHEN ONE BLOCK SLIPPED AS DOZER CAMEW FORWARD AGAINST BLOCK AND PINNED I NAME BETWEEN DOZER BLADE AND HI LIFT TIRE DOZER CRUSHED WORKER RESULTING IN HEAD AND EXTENSIVE CHEST AND INTERNAL INJURIES
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