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2300 8TH STREET SE, MAPLEWOOD ADD BORROW PIT, EAST GRAND FORKS, MN 56721
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Employee Dies from Injuries Caused by Flying Clump of Clay
On August 14, 2002, Employee #1 was using a tandem-axle dump truck to hauling lo ads of clay in a pit to a levy system. At the moment when he left his truck to h elp a coworker, an excavator operator was swinging a bucket with a load of clay in Employee #1's direction. The operator, seeing that the bucket or the boom mig ht strike Employee #1, stopped the boom abruptly. This caused that a large piece of the cohesive clay broke away from bucket and struck Employee #1's torso in t he area of his kidneys. Employee #1 later died of complications resulting from h is injuries.
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