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Preliminary Report - Fatality #18 - August 25, 2014

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Preliminary Report Overview

About 3:15 p.m., the victim went to a storage building to get some wooden planks. He climbed a stack of loaded pallets to get to the planks that were near the rafters and fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below. The next day two coworkers arrived at the mine and found the victim at approximately 6:05 a.m.