RELIEF SHOVEL OPERATOR EE WAS LOADING SHOT ROCK WITH A NORTHWEST 180-D SHOVEL ONTO DUMP TRUCKS (NOTE: NO TRUCKS WERE CLOST TO SHOVEL, BUT OPERATOR WAS LOADING BUCKET IN PREPARATION FOR TRUCK T HAT WAS TURNING TO BACK UP AND GET LOADED) APPARENTLY NORTHWEST 180-D SHOVEL BUCKET DETONATED AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE CREATING BLAST AND SUBSEQUENT ROCK SLIDE.
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July 1, 1992
WV · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Pounding Mill Quarry Corp · Struck by flying object
June 23, 1987
VA · Metal/Non-Metal
crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger
Fatality · MACHINERY
Trego Stone Corp · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
CLEANING OUT DI7CH USING CRANE DRAGLINE WITH CLAM SHELL.CRANE APPEARED TO MOVE FORWARD GOING OVER EDGE OF BANK AND OVERTURNED.I.NAME JUMPED OUT OF CRANE AND WAS BURIED UNDER DIRT,ROCK & SAND F ROM HEAD TO WAI8T.MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES,FATALITY.
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