On Tuesday morning, a trucker who was working at the George W Long & Sons Lumber Yard in Cambria County was involved in an accident. The man was loading lumber into his tractor trailer when he fell, causing a forklift to start up.
According to the coroner, the man fell from the truck onto the forklift’s controls, setting the boom into motion. The man’s chest was crushed between the roof and the boom of the forklift, killing him.
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