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July 31, 2018 ND · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Susag Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The loader operator was lowering a piece of metal chained to the bucket onto the top of a rock crushing plant. The loader operator did not see that the accident victim was between the loader bucket and the rock crusher frame.

November 10, 2005 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Susag Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by falling object

LOADING CONVEYOR 3, CHAIN SLIPPED OFF BUCKET AND FELL ON ANKLE. BROKEN ANKLE.

July 13, 2005 ND · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Susag Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A finger got pinched between the frame of a conveyer and a crowbar.

September 20, 2002 ND · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER
Susag Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by flying object

WAS MOVING SCREENS FROM A PICK UP INTO OR ON A TRAILER, WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO THE EYE. IT WAS A WINDY DAY.

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