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Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.
Employee was working on removing a pin from a leveling cylinder on the back of the rock truck. While the employee was performing this work, the haul truck bed fell on top of the employee.
EE was shoving top soil away from the highwall. He backed up over and through an 8 foot berm that had been constructed at the edge of the highwall. The dozer went over the wall rolling over and throwing him out of the cab.
Shuttle car operator stopped to talk to the shuttle car operator in the crosscut behind him. Scoop operator in crosscut in front proceeded to cross in front of shuttle car. Shuttle car operator proceeded with the buggy towards the feeder running over the scoop operator in front of him.