Smithland, Ky.—The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration reports that an assistant plant manager with 30 years of experience was fatally injured while working in an aerial lift at a crushed stone quarry. The victim was in a boom lift, taking samples from a highwall, when a large rock fell and struck him. He was hospitalized and died 12 days later. –www.msha.gov
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