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November 19, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Magma Copper Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS RERAILING A 20-TON ASEA CAR WHEN HE GOT PINNED BETWEEN THE ORE CAR & THE RIB THE ORE CAR WAS BEING PULLED THROUGH A RE-RAILER THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES TO EMPLOYEE

August 25, 1987 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal chute blaster, rockman, hang-up man, raise blaster Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Magma Copper Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING AN 8 TON BATTERY MOTOR AND HAD A COLLISION WITH A HAULAGE TRAIN AND RECEIVED MASSIVE CRUSH INJURY TO CHEST. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE

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