Marshall
Herb Gibson, area director for the OSHA Denver Area Office, said his agency came on site at B.K. Tire Inc., 3775 Puritan Way, shortly after the death of 21-year-old Eric Hayden Marshall.
Gibson said the inspection could take two months to complete, because OSHA employees want to do a thorough investigation.
He said OSHA has not had any prior inspection activity at the business.
Police investigating the incident say that Marshall had been airing up a semitrailer tire when a failure occurred and he was struck in the head by the tire and rim.
He was pronounced dead at a Denver hospital shortly after the incident.
Gibson said OSHA investigates any fatality at a business, and employers are required to report any hospitalizations or amputations that occur.
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Dacono man dies in accident at Frederick tire shop
Eric Hayden Marshall (Courtesy photo)
Eric Hayden Marshall was pronounced dead July 15 at Denver Health Medical Center after being struck by a tire and wheel as he inflated the tire at B.K. Tire Inc., 3775 Puritan Way, the Weld County Coroner's Office said in an email Tuesday.
A Frederick police report said Marshall had been inflating a semitrailer tire when a failure occurred and knocked him back 15 feet. An investigator also found pieces of a broken air chuck next to the tire and wheel.
The tire, which was used, appeared to officers to have been damaged prior to the incident based on "blemishes" found by police, although an investigator noted that some scuff marks probably came from the tire popping off the wheel.
A representative of B.K. Tire declined to comment Tuesday but, according to the report, the store owner told police that the blemishes on the tire must have come from the tire blowing off the wheel as it was being inflated.
The tire had become partially dislodged from the wheel, the report said.
An officer responded to the tire store shortly before 5 p.m. and found paramedics tending to Marshall — who had been struck in the head — on the floor of the service area, the report said.
Marshall was airlifted to Denver Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 6:30 p.m., according to the report.
OSHA did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Eric's brother, Dean Marshall, of Dacono, said his family is "doing all right" and has been receiving a lot of help and support from family and friends.
Dean said his brother liked to hang out with friends, ride dirt bikes and motorcycles and work on an old Chevy Nova that he owned.
"Whenever you needed him, he'd be there," Dean Marshall said. "He always wanted to help anyone he could."