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Man Killed While Working In Trench
POSTED: 9:30 am PDT July 19, 2007
UPDATED: 7:00 pm PDT July 19, 2007
SAN DIEGO -- A 55-year-old laborer working in a trench at a Kearny Mesa construction site was killed Thursday when the steel shovel end of a backhoe fell off the machine and landed on him, authorities said.Darrell Morgan of Vista died at the scene of the accident in the 5800 block of Copley Drive shortly after 9 a.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and county Medical Examiner's Office.It was unclear why the backhoe bucket came loose, officials said.Cal/OSHA investigators went to the site to determine the cause of the fatal accident.
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