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October 19, 2020 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Rubble Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Task was to remove screen flare. Employee was loosening bolts, changed work location, dangerously close to excavator, without warning or eye contact with excavator operator. Excavator rotated, bucket of excavator struck employee in the upper chest resulting in death.

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