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February 6, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
High Country Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THERE WAS A ROCK IN THE TAIL PULLEY ONT HE CONE RETURN. EE AND OTHER TRIED TO BAR THE ROCK OUT. ROCK DID NOT MOVE EE WENT TO THE HEAD PULLEY AND WAS GOING TO TURN THE BELT BY HAND. OTHER DID N OT KNOW THIS AND GAVE THE SIGNED TO ANOTHER TO BUMP THE BELT ON AND OFF. THE BELT TURNED ON AT THE TIME EE GRABED THE BELT.

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