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December 26, 2019 OK · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator OTHER
Lightle Sand & Construction LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I received a call from an EE telling me to call for an ambulance for IE. IE had been digging with an EC480 EL excavator. An EE told me that IE's excavator had stop moving, so the EE's went to check on IE. Two other EE's found IE unresponsive. The ambulance came and pronounced IE expired.

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