A police investigation is underway into a Texas workplace accident that ended in the death of a 41-year-old crane operator.
The victim, Cesar Barrios Gomez, was working for a Houston, Texas, printing company. He was attempting to move a crane Monday evening when the base failed and fell onto him.
According to investigators, several workers attempted to pull Gomez out from under the crane, but he was dead at the scene. Gomez died of a puncture wound to his head.
So far no charges have been filed, but investigators have said that the craned was loaded over its one ton capacity by several hundred pounds.
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