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18.12.2019

Telehandler fatality

A man was crushed by a telehandler boom last week at a recycling centre in Aiken, South Carolina – to the east of Augusta, Georgia.
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the boom was raised as the emergency services arrived


The man, Robert Billy Harris, 53, was apparently moving machinery at recycling company ALCS at the time when the boom dropped and caught him causing fatal crush injuries. He was declared dead at the scene. We have not been able to confirm if he was in the open cab at the time, working on the machine or attempting to load or unload from the forks.
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The telehandler some time later



That is all the information we have at this point but will update if or when we learn more.

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