Getting caught between two diesel-operated ditching machines caused fatal injuries at a construction equipment salvage business. The victim was working alone in the scrap yard he owned. He was using a mobile ditch-drilling machine to move a piece of I-beam about seven feet (two meters) long and weighing about 440 pounds (200 kilograms). He chained the steel beam to the bucket and engaged the drive mechanism. Rather than ride on the moving machine, he walked beside it over the rough packed dirt surface of the yard. His coveralls became caught on the horizontal auger of the stationary ditching machine. Distracted, he did […]