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Show -ROCK SLIDE TAKES ; ANOTHER LIFE ' George Peter Johnson, 61, Tay-lorsville, Tay-lorsville, crushed in the cab of an electric shovel, was killed in-F..stantly in-F..stantly Wednesday morning at . j 10:20 a.m. on D level, west side I , of Kennecott Copper Corp., Utah l Copper Division open pit mine. - Mr. Johnson was operating the ' jshovel in widening the level. The ;huge jaw of the machine had '" scooped a five-yard bite from the i side of the cut and was turning Ho dump the load in a waiting 'yi ore car when the accident occur- red. Workmen said only waste yi material was being moved. I ' A huge boulder, weighing more I than 100 tons and more than 20 feet from base to tip fell away II from the bank and crashed into Si the side of the shovel. Mr. John-'.son John-'.son was not hit by the boulder but the sheet steel side of the operator's cab was crushed a-1' a-1' gainst the interior wall, pinning s him in a space no wider than I eight inches. Fellow workmen cut the steel away from the bo-"(fl bo-"(fl dy with an acetylene torch to permit removal. The body was IE taken" to a Bingham mortuary and later to American Fork for funeral services and burial. Oth- er members of the crew escaped injury. A son of Lar Peter and Kirsten Pederson Johnson, he was born January 20, 1887 in American M Fork and had been employed at the mine since 1916, working as a carpenter's helper, repair gang helper, steam shovel fireman, craneman and since 1923 a sho-8,1 sho-8,1 vel operator. , He married Vera Mary Adams aFin American Fork July 26, 1910, and the couple established their home at Copperfield, where they 01 resided until 1937 when they i purchased a home at 1283 West 4800 South. He was a former member of BPOE lodge 85, Salt Lake -City and a former officer of Taylorsville Lions club. , Besides his widow he is survived sur-vived by a son, Reed R. Johnson, Midvale; two daughters, Mrs. Bernice Clinton, Midvale, and Mrs. Velma Watson, West Jordan; Jor-dan; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Josie Dolsen, Los Angeles; a brother, James Johnson and a stepmother, Mrs. Louise Gygi, Salt Lake City. |