A maintenance worker was repairing a piece of heavy construction equipment when he was crushed to death by the engine hood. He had driven to the construction site after hours with an assistant who went to work on another piece of equipment located a couple hundred feet away. It is not known why the hood fell, but it appeared to have had broken hinges and defective shock absorbers. These defects had been reported earlier but had not been repaired. There were also strong winds at the time of the incident. The assistant found the worker some time after the hood fell. He used […]
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