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drill runner

drill runner

[′dril ‚rən·ər]
(mining engineering)
A tunnel miner who operates rock drills.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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This resurfacing required that Grace employees, known as drill runners, jack hammer the concrete surface of these lanes.
Defendants argue it would have been impossible to keep the area where Mosca was working completely free of any broken up material, like concrete, debris, rubble, etc., because she was working side by side with the drill runners, and her job was to remove the debris.
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