Boggles the mind
Nov. 7th, 2013 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charisstomaEDINBURG, Texas — A 64-year-old South Texas cemetery worker is dead after a five-foot, one-ton tombstone toppled and crushed him to death.
Edinburg police say the man died about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Edinburg, which is 50 miles northwest of Brownsville. Cemetery manager Sandy Prost says the tombstone was listing and Mendoza was trying to straighten it when it fell on him.
Edinburg police Lt. Oscar Trevino says an autopsy has been ordered and the death has been reported to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/11/06/5313202/tombstone-fatally-crushes-s-texas.html#storylink=cpy
Edinburg police say the man died about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Edinburg, which is 50 miles northwest of Brownsville. Cemetery manager Sandy Prost says the tombstone was listing and Mendoza was trying to straighten it when it fell on him.
Edinburg police Lt. Oscar Trevino says an autopsy has been ordered and the death has been reported to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/11/06/5313202/tombstone-fatally-crushes-s-texas.html#storylink=cpy
