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September 26, 2016 WY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Mobile Concrete Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Unknown, waiting on autopsy results and State/Federal MSHA inspection reports. Mobile Concrete does not believe this fatality was work related. Verbal findings from Niobrara County Coroner indicate death was due to a cardiac episode.

December 3, 2002 WY · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Mobile Concrete Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE TRIED TO STOP SERVICE TRUCK FROM ROLLING AND HE GOT CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE BED OF THE SERVICE TRUCK AND THE SIDE OF A LOADER BUCKET. THE BED OF THE SERVICE TRUCK SMASHED HIS HIPS INTO THE SI DE OF THE LOADER BUCKET CAUSING FRACTURES IN THE PELVIC AREA.

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