L'Unione Sarda

Crushed by a granite slab: one dead in the Buddusò quarry

Tragedy in a granite quarry, this afternoon, in Buddusò. A 73-year-old retired entrepreneur, Pietro Bua, died after being crushed by a slab of granite in the Bua Graniti quarry, of which he was the ...
salisburypost

Abandoned structures in Granite Quarry destroyed in Wednesday fire

GRANITE QUARRY — A structure fire involving an abandoned house and outbuilding in the 600 block of Dunns Mountain Church Road Wednesday night around 8 p.m. ended in the collapse of both buildings. No ...
WYFF

Man killed when 16,000-pound granite slab falls on him, coroner says

A man was killed Thursday when a piece of granite fell on him in Oglethorpe County, according to Coroner Howard Sanders.Sanders said the accident happened just before 10:15 a.m. at Blue Sky Granite ...
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Up close footage shows huge granite slab being toppled over at Norwegian quarry

Up close footage shows a huge slab of granite being toppled over at a quarry in Larvik, Norway. "The quarry, a cornerstone of Larvik's history has been in operation for decades, and these pictures ...
Concord Monitor

Swenson Granite is still quarrying hard but wants to do it sideways rather than from on high

Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson Granite Quarry has expanded operations slightly on Rattlesnake Hill, even as it starts reconfiguring its approach to ...