Man trapped, killed at Allendale construction site.
ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A construction worker is dead after he became trapped when wooden supports fell on him at a construction site in Allendale Friday.
Around 1:25 p.m., emergency crews were sent to a new home construction site on 68th Avenue near Fillmore Street after receiving a report that a man was trapped under construction trusses.
Responding Allendale firefighters was able to free the 56-year-old man from under the stack of wooden trusses. The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department said he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The name of the man has not been released.
A preliminary investigation shows that the man was unloading the trusses from a delivery truck when they fell on top of him.
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