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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was at mighty Dunlop Station on the Darling River near Louth in 1888 that the buzz of mechanical shears first drowned out the ...

William Scheier died last year at Goodyear's Danville, Va., plant when the cutting wheel on this Alpha Shear machine surged toward him, pinning him down. Credit: Courtesy of Danville Police Department ...