County subcontractor identified
By TANNER COLE tcole@thehawkeye.com
Mar 1, 2017
The Stockport man killed Monday after falling from the back of a moving truck was Neil Bruss, 46.
Bruss was mentioned by Des Moines County Engineer Brian Carter during Tuesday’s county supervisors meeting. The man was not a county employee, but he was working for the Des Moines County Secondary Roads Department as a subcontractor.
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March 2, 2017, at 12:58 p.m.
YARMOUTH, Iowa (AP) — A county official has disclosed the name of a roads worker killed in a fall in southeast Iowa's Des Moines County.
The man had been pulling up road signs Monday morning for the county roads department. County Sheriff Mike Johnstone says the man fell from a moving truck and struck his head about a mile and a half south of Yarmouth. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Hawk Eye reports (http://bit.ly/2mPVeox ) that the county engineer, Brian Carter, mentioned the man's name during Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting. He was identified as 46-year-old Neil Bruss, who lived in Stockport. Officials say Bruss was a subcontractor for the roads department.
___ Information from: The Hawk Eye, http://www.thehawkeye.com
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YARMOUTH, Iowa — A roads worker has been killed in a fall in southeast Iowa’s Des Moines County.
The Hawk Eye reports (http://bit.ly/2lcZpOO ) that the man had been picking up road signs Monday morning for the county roads department. Des Moines County Sheriff Mike Johnstone says the man fell from a moving truck and struck his head about a mile and a half south of Yarmouth. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
His name is being withheld until family members are notified about his death.