Tenneco Oil Company Open-Pit Uranium Mine Electrocution

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Tenneco Oil Company
Open-Pit Uranium Mine Electrocution

Texas
October 3, 1970
No. Killed - 2

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A miner was electrocuted when he drove a portable drill rig with the mast up into a high voltage powerline. In an attempt to rescue the truck driver, another miner was also electrocuted.

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