Injured party is not an employee of the mine. Mine personnel were assisting a vendor unload metal culvert pipe that he was delivering to the mine. One pipe had been removed with a forklift and placed on the ground. He then walked around the trailer to the side opposite the forklift to secure a strap when a second pipe rolled off the struck him in the leg fracturing the leg.
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