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Preliminary Report - Fatality #6 - 07/20/2017

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The victim was driving wedges into a block of granite in an attempt to break it loose in the southeast corner of the east pit. A piece of the block broke loose, which weighed about 9 tons, fell and crushed the victim against the quarry floor.