Monday, 10 September 2012

Worker killed in Bismarck water intake project accident

Worker killed in Bismarck water intake project accident: BISMARCK, N.D. - A workplace accident resulted in the death of a 36-year-old man on Sunday afternoon in Bismarck.A man was crushed while a piece of pipe was being lowered into a trench located on the 500 block of River Road, Bismarck Police Lt. Jeff Solemsaas said. A backhoe — a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket on the end of an articulated arm — slipped and rotated to the side where the man was standing, crushing his chest and abdomen.

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