A 40-year-old Florida man was crushed to death by a bulldozer while using a portable pot at a junkyard where he worked as a traffic controller.
- Aaron Henderson, a contract worker at Polk County’s North Central Junkyard, died in an accident when a portable pot he was in was hit by a bulldozer.
- The bulldozer operator said at the sheriff’s office that he didn’t see the portable pot because the blade was up.
- Henderson, who worked as a traffic spotter at the junkyard, died at the scene on March 4.
- A preliminary investigation showed that this was a tragic case; OSHA Investigates Death
The dispatcher works under a contract in St. Florida the landfill was destroyed by a bulldozer last week.
Aaron Henderson, 40, was going to the toilet at Polk County’s North Central Junkyard around 5:10 p.m. Friday when the bizarre accident occurred.
Emergency personnel called to the work site pronounced Henderson dead at the scene.
Both Henderson and the unnamed bulldozer worked for an employment agency called CertiTemp, which has a contract with the county.
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Aaron Henderson, a contract worker at Florida’s Polk County North Central Junkyard, died in an accident when the pot he was in was knocked over by a bulldozer.
The incident took place at a test site in Florida at the end of the working day on March 4.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Henderson, of Winter Haven, was assigned as a “spotter” responsible for managing dump truck traffic at the dump.
Late in the day on a Friday, a bulldozer driver was driving up to an embankment to park his car for the night when the dozer blade, raised 3-4 feet off the ground, hit something, making a loud noise. informed WSP.
According to the sheriff’s office, the driver couldn’t see straight ahead because the bulldozer’s raised blade prevented him from seeing.
A bulldozer operator was driving to park a car when he ran over a portable pot (the images above show a bulldozer and a portable pot in a landfill)
The bulldozer operator said he did not see the pot above the raised blade of the machine and did not even know that he was in this place.
As the bulldozer continued forward, the driver realized he had run over a portable pot that he did not know was nearby.
“He immediately got out of the bulldozer and ran to the pot to see if anyone was in it,” a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said. “He noticed at the time that Henderson was not responding in a pot.”
Initial investigations suggest it was a “tragic industrial accident”, authorities said.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has been contacted and is investigating the fatal incident. ARAF.
Henderson, pictured on the left with his sons, was pronounced dead at the scene. He turned 40 last month.
“Last night’s incident was a tragic accident,” Martha Santiago, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, wrote in a statement. “Our Council asks you to remember the family and friends of the deceased in your thoughts and prayers.”
Henderson’s death marks the first death in a Polk County landfill.
According to social media posts, Henderson is survived by several children. He turned 40 in February.