Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Fatality #23


According to MSHA, the metal/nonmental sector has suffered it's 23rd fatality of the year. On September 7, a 54-year-old supervisor with 27 years of experience was fatally injured at a crushed-stone operation. The victim was operating a track loader to remove excess material from an access road. The machine traveled over an embankment and landed approximately 125 ft. below. Your comment?

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