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Man Crushed Beneath Construction Equipment

Government safety investigators were due in Durango, Colorado Monday to look into the circumstances the led to the death of construction worker.

The 24-year-old man, who has not been identified, was crushed under a five-ton road-maintenance vehicle that that flipped on top of him.

The man was driving the pneumatic roller in a subdivision when the machine's left wheels went off the edge of a dirt road, causing it to roll over. The man who died from being crushed by the roller.

The man worked for Scott & Sons Excavation, which was performing road work in the Rafter J subdivision.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was called in to investigate the workplace-related death.