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May 12, 1995 NV · Metal/Non-Metal water truck operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Round Mountain Gold Corporation · Struck against a moving object

THE VICTIM WAS DESCENDIG A PIT RAMP WITHA 4000-GALLON LOAD OF WATER, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK ADN ROLLE DSEVERAL TIMES. EE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.

June 3, 1994 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Echo Bay Minerals Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE DRIVING EMPTY HAUL TRUCK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT & THE TRUCK DRIVER LOST CONTROL & DROVE INTO THE PIT WALL.

October 9, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Sunnyside Gold Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE VICTIM CLOS9D SWITCH CONTROLLING AIR DOOR AS MUCK TRAIN APPROACHED THE DOOR CLOSED HE ATTEMPTED TO RUN TO AN EMERGENCY SWITCH AND WAS STRUCK BY THE TRAIN IF HE HAD REMAINED WHERE HE WAS AN D OPENED THE MA3N SWITCH HE WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN INJURED

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