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Mass. worker crushed while working on semi-trailer

First responders in Westborough use airbags, cribbing to lift the 53-foot-long box trailer off the victim

By Irene Rotondo
masslive.com

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. 鈥 A man who was working on a semi-trailer truck in Westborough on Wednesday morning died while he was on the job, the s office said.

The local police department, state police and its detectives in the district attorney鈥檚 office were investigating the man鈥檚 death as of Dec. 27, and the district attorney stated there is no threat to the general public.

Thedid not immediately respond for comment, but told other outlets the man was a worker who had been crushed under a 53-foot-long box trailer in a lot off Computer Drive.

Westborough Fire Chief Patrick Purcell told in Boston that 鈥渢here was a maintenance truck on scene [and] there were two workers 鈥 one was underneath the truck, working on landing gear when the accident happened.鈥

Purcell told the outlet there was between 50,000 and 70,000 pounds of cargo inside the truck when it collapsed.

The man鈥檚 body was trapped underneath and despite rescue crews鈥 efforts to lift the trailer with airbags and other gear, he was pronounced dead at the scene after an hour, the outlet reported.

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