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I posted this as well on the Estes forum, R.I.P.
The Herald, Sharon, Pa.
February 15, 2014
Estes fatality an apparent accident
By Michael Roknick
Herald Business Editor
SHENANGO TOWNSHIP — An Estes Express Lines truck driver was crushed to death Friday morning in what appears to be an accident at the company’s Shenango Township terminal, police and the company said.
Richard “Dick’’ Beck was attempting to connect his truck cab to a parked trailer at about 2:50 a.m., Southwest Mercer County Regional Police said.
Beck had exited the cab to go to its rear when the cab started drifting backward toward him, police said. As Beck reached back into the cab to hit the brake pedal, he was pinned between the open door of his cab and the corner of an adjacent parked trailer, police said.
“The assumption is he got caught in the door and it just wedged him between the cab and door and he got crushed against the stationary trailer,’’ said police Chief Riley Smoot Jr.
No age or address was immediately available for Beck, but a company spokeswoman believed he lived in the Dayton, Ohio, area.
Curtis E. Carr, vice president of safety for Estes, released a statement saying the company’s corporate chaplains were working with Beck’s family, as well as Estes employees in several locations. He said the company was deeply saddened by the tragic incident.
The Mercer County Coroner’s office responded but did not have a report available late Friday afternoon.
The federal Occupational and Safety Health Administration was notified of the fatality and had an investigator at the scene on Friday, said Theresa Naim, director of the agency’s Erie office.
She had no further information and a company spokeswoman declined further coment, citing the investigation.
The Herald, Sharon, Pa.
February 15, 2014
Estes fatality an apparent accident
By Michael Roknick
Herald Business Editor
SHENANGO TOWNSHIP — An Estes Express Lines truck driver was crushed to death Friday morning in what appears to be an accident at the company’s Shenango Township terminal, police and the company said.
Richard “Dick’’ Beck was attempting to connect his truck cab to a parked trailer at about 2:50 a.m., Southwest Mercer County Regional Police said.
Beck had exited the cab to go to its rear when the cab started drifting backward toward him, police said. As Beck reached back into the cab to hit the brake pedal, he was pinned between the open door of his cab and the corner of an adjacent parked trailer, police said.
“The assumption is he got caught in the door and it just wedged him between the cab and door and he got crushed against the stationary trailer,’’ said police Chief Riley Smoot Jr.
No age or address was immediately available for Beck, but a company spokeswoman believed he lived in the Dayton, Ohio, area.
Curtis E. Carr, vice president of safety for Estes, released a statement saying the company’s corporate chaplains were working with Beck’s family, as well as Estes employees in several locations. He said the company was deeply saddened by the tragic incident.
The Mercer County Coroner’s office responded but did not have a report available late Friday afternoon.
The federal Occupational and Safety Health Administration was notified of the fatality and had an investigator at the scene on Friday, said Theresa Naim, director of the agency’s Erie office.
She had no further information and a company spokeswoman declined further coment, citing the investigation.
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