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May 18, 2021 TN · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Nyrstar Tennessee Mines, Strawberry Plains LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A group solely comprised of RWS contractors [MSHA Contractor ID B5045] was working in the mine. A pump sitting on a trailer was moved by RWS contractors by a telehandler, without notification to Nyrstar. RWS hitched the trailer to their telehandler. RWS pulled the trailer up a ramp. The trailer hitch broke. An individual RWS EE traveling on foot behind the trailer was struck

February 22, 2021 TN · Metal/Non-Metal grizzly worker, grizzly tender, grizzlyman, chute puller, chute tapper Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Nyrstar Tennessee Mines, Strawberry Plains LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A rail haulage offsider was riding back to the chute to get another load when the locomotive over traveled into the chute causing fatal injuries to the offsider rail employee.

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