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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The antheral who was killed aft being pinned wrong an excavator successful Fresno County connected Tuesday was identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office connected Wednesday.
The coroner's bureau identified the idiosyncratic arsenic 35-year-old Jonathan Swarthout of Los Banos, a begetter of 4 and a husband. Swarthout was killed aft an excavator helium was operating overturned against a boulder, pinning him inside.
The incidental took spot Tuesday greeting astatine Academy Quarry located connected Tollhouse Road successful Fresno County. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office reports that the excavator was loading stone into a dump truck, and it overturned during the operation. The cab of the excavator landed connected the boulder, pinning the idiosyncratic inside.
At astir 8 a.m., deputies arrived astatine the country to find the antheral pinned against a rock, trapped betwixt a boulder and the excavator. The injuries the antheral suffered were from the instrumentality overturning and coming into interaction with the boulder.
Firefighters were capable to escaped the man, but helium was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration has started an probe into the incident.
