Erie man killed in North East workplace accident
By Tim Hahn
September 2, 2018
The man was pronounced dead on Friday night. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
NORTH EAST, PA —
The Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie County Coroner’s Office are investigating the death of an Erie man who was killed in a workplace accident at a North East Township business on Friday.
The 53-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died after he was hit by a truck while working around a loading dock at Bay Valley Foods, Erie County Deputy Coroner John Maloney said Sunday. Bay Valley Foods is located on Parkway Drive, off Loomis Street east of North East Borough.
Emergency responders were called to the business after the incident was reported on Friday at 5:45 p.m., according to East Erie County Emergency Communications. Maloney said he pronounced the man dead at the scene at 7:02 p.m. Friday. An autopsy will be performed on Tuesday, he said.
State police in Lawrence Park Township confirmed on Sunday that they are investigating the incident but did not release any other information.
A spokesman for Bay Valley Foods parent company TreeHouse Foods Inc. on Sunday confirmed the incident and expressed sympathy to the man’s family. He said the company is working with the authorities in their investigation.
It was only time before somebody got killed there. The truck traffic gets so busy that this was a disaster in the making.
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