Construction Worker Killed in Idaho
A construction worker, Ezra Gordon, was killed in Sandpoint, Idaho early in the morning on Tuesday, January 16, after being pulled into drilling equipment. The incident occurred at a construction site on the banks of Lake Pend Oreille, near a condominium complex north of City Beach. A drilling crew was operating a large track-mounted drill when the victim became entangled in the equipment. The drill has been described as heavy equipment similar to those used to extract underground core samples. Emergency personnel responded, but Gordon passed away on the scene. Authorities believe that the man’s clothing caught on the mechanism, but the complete cause of the accident is still under investigation.
“Details surrounding the incident are sketchy and we don’t have the exact cause of the incident,” said Sandpoint Fire Chief Robert Tyler. Officials with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration are also investigating the incident. This incident is the first fatal construction accident in the city of Sandpoint since July 1993. At that time, a construction worker was killed at the Lousiana-Pacific sawmill which used to be on Larch Street and Boyer Avenue.
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