Digga initially supplied earthmoving wearparts to local machinery operators.

"Doesn't matter which one it is, it's Assyrian," said Youel Mirza, 57, of Chicago, a retired machinery operator born in Al Anbar, near the Syrian border.

Contractors working at the site said the area had been divided into sectors, with machinery operators assigned to specific tasks in specific places and laborers marshaled into rough work teams.

"You have to work to make money and keep your job, of course," said Atoni Dumitri, 37, a machinery operator, "but we can work harder if we are paid better."

Tucker was a heavy machinery operator and was most likely the one who covered up the bodies using a bulldozer that he owned.

During a five-year stint in Australia, he worked as a machinery operator and in sales.

This application proved to be extremely successful, allowing machinery operators a practical method of observing actual shaft vibratory motion for the first time.

The objective here was to assist in the training of the indigenous Indonesian work force as electrical, mechanical, and mobile machinery operators at the town site of Tembaga Pura.

He had worked since February 1990 as a machinery operator at a Monsanto chemical plant here.

They must be designed and located, or protected, so as to prevent any involuntary movement or other manoeuvre that could endanger the machinery operator.