1 WORKER DEAD IN MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT INDUSTRIAL
ACCIDENT
January 23, 2015
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH)
— A man has died after an accident at an industrial plant in Middletown
Friday morning.
At 8:45 a.m., police and
fire crews responded to a call of an accident at Kloeckner Metals, inside the
old Primary Steel building on Newfield Street.
The building address is 760 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457. Officials said that workers were moving pieces
of steel inside the building when the accident took place. The workers were
loading steel onto a truck. No other details of how the accident occurred have
been made available.
The victim was
transported to Middlesex Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
His identity has not yet been released pending notification of family, but
officers tell News 8 that the man was 43-years-old. No one else was hurt
in the accident.
Middletown and state
police, along with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are
still conducting their investigation.
Kloeckner
Metals services customers throughout the eastern region of the country,
according to their website. They stock ferrous and non-ferrous metals like
sheet, plate and long products.