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Employee exited the Hitachi Shovel and placed himself between the shovel and highwall. While on the ground between the shovel and highwall, the highwall sloughed and pinned the employee against the track of the machine resulting in a fatality.
DOZER OPERATOR RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES WHEN THE DOZER HE HAD BEEN OPERATING BACKED OVER HIM.
HAULER WAS DESC9NDING RAMP 4-C INTO PIT 003.HAULER LEFT THE ROADWAY TO THE LEFT,STRUCK AND RAN OVER EMPLOYEE.
WORK WAS UNDER 4AY TO REPAIR A SPREADER BAR THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM A DRAGLINE BUCKET THE BAR CONSISTING OF A TWO 8 INCH DIAMETER SCHEDULE 80 PIPES AND STEEL BLOCK AT EACH END WAS ABOUT 3 30-35 FT LONG I7 HAD DEFORMED IN THE SHAPE OF A 1 SUCH THAT THE BLOCKS WERE NOW 15 FT APART BAR WAS BEING HELD UPRIGHT BY A FORKLIFT A WELDER HAD CUT ONE OF THE , IN PIPES NEAR ONE OF THE BLO
EMPLOYEE STOPPE8 TO LEND ASSISTANCE TO THE WATER TRUCK OPERATOR WHEN THE FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR, THINKING THE HAULER OPERATOR WAS STUCK, PUSHED THE HAULER INTO THE EMPLOYEE AND TRUCK
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON BOOM SECTION OF SPREDER WHEN BOOM JOLTED UP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO GROUND HE SUSTAINED FATAL HEAD INJURIES