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April 1, 2008 ID · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
North Idaho Drilling Incorporated · Struck by flying object

North Idaho Drilling Inc. was contracted to perform drilling and blasting activities. I, as blaster in charge, backed off all employees and bystanders to what I figured as a safe distance from the blast. when the blast was detonated flyrock from the blast hit a bystander and broke her arm resulting in a non-life threatening injury.

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