Man killed in New Haven industrial accident was offloading fertilizer, fire chief says
NEW HAVEN — An industrial accident that killed a 23-year-old happened as the man was removing fertilizer from a train, the New Haven fire chief said Friday. It happened at about 1 p.m. Thursday in the 100 block of Middletown Avenue; the man “was using a conveyor belt to offload fertilizer from a rail car,” Fire Chief Daniel Coughlin said. “Somehow he was pulled into the belt and was killed,” Coughlin said. The man, whose name had not been released as of Friday morning, was pronounced dead at the scene, he said. It wasn’t the first time firefighters were called to the scrapyard, where a fire burned a dome-like structure used for storing construction waste in November. No one was injured in the fire. The conveyor belt accident is being investigated by the New Haven Police Department and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the fire chief said.
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