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June 23, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · NONPOWERED HAULAGE
Superior Silica Sands LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

On June 23, 2018 at approximately 9:20 am an employee mounted a pair of slow moving rail cars to apply the brakes. The employee fell and was struck by the pair of freewheeling hopper rail cars. The employee was fatally injured because of the fall and being struck by the moving rail cars.

February 19, 2007 NC · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · NONPOWERED HAULAGE
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

An R-35 Euclid Haul truck and a rail car collided.

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